Rio Tinto Was Able to Introduce Robotic Machines into Its

question 27

Multiple Choice

Rio Tinto was able to introduce robotic machines into its mining operations because of developments in computer technology, the Global Positioning System (GPS) , and robotics.The company's mining operations are an example of ________, in which devices directly communicate data to a computer without a person having to enter the data.

• A)the Internet of Things
• B)the use of Big Data
• C)Artificial Intelligence
• D)Technological Singularity

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