Blasting is considered an indispensable process in mining excavation operations. Generally, only a small percentage of the total energy of blasting is consumed in the fragmentation and displacement of ...

The authors express their deepest appreciation to the Google DeepMind Robotics team and in particular David B. D’Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Alex Bewley and Krista Reymann ...