The deployment of these machines triggered massive unemployment and civil unrest. The human workforce, feeling betrayed, organized large-scale union actions and launched attacks against Auto-Miner-operated sites. In a desperate move to prove human worth, their rival, Garrahan Mining, funded the development of the Excavator Power Armor . The Ultimate Contest
In the years leading up to the Great War, sought to eliminate the high costs and risks of human labor by partnering with Atomic Mining Services to produce the Auto-Miner . Their goal was to fully automate their mining operations, leaving only executive staff on the payroll. The Workers' Revolt AutoMiner
Autonomous units in No Man's Sky or Space Engineers that harvest resources while players explore. AutoMiner