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Automated mining inspection against the odds
Silicon Valley Robotics
23 Feb 2022
Rajant Corporation achieved a historic unmanned underground mine inspection at one of the US’ largest underground room and pillar limestone operations.
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Autonomously Mapping the Seafloor, with Anthony DiMare and Charles Chiau
Abate De Mey
26 Aug 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJP6B5jfaOE
Robohub Podcast · Autonomously Mapping the Seafloor
Anthony DiMare and Charles Chiau deep dive into how Bedrock Ocean is innovating in the world of M...
An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used in disasters like the Florida condo collapse
Robin Murphy
01 Jul 2021
A drone flies above search and rescue personnel at the site of the Champlain Towers South Condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has depl...
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Deep Sea Mining, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo
Abate De Mey
18 Jan 2021
Robohub Podcast · Deep Sea Mining
In this episode, Abate follows up with Benjamin Pietro Filardo, founder of Pliant Energy Systems and NACROM, the North American Consortium for Responsible Ocean M...
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
Stanford University News
25 Jul 2017
By Taylor Kubota, Stanford News Service
Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of ...
Robots to the rescue!
Peter Feuilherade
19 Jul 2017
This article was first published on the IEC e-tech website.
Rapid advances in technology are revolutionizing the roles of aerial, terrestrial and maritime robotic systems in disaster relief, search...
Robots on drilling platforms: Austrian-German consortium wins international competition
Robohub Editors
22 May 2017
Last week taurob, together with research partner TU Darmstadt, was announced the winner of the ARGOS Challenge, powered by Oil & Gas giant Total S.A.
In a three-year competition, five internati...
Bristol professors to play role in creating robots for dangerous nuclear sites
UWE Bristol
01 Mar 2017
The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) is part of a consortium which has received a £4.6 million grant to build a new generation of robots for use in nuclear sites. The funding from the ...
Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE: Semi-finalists set sail on a journey to illuminate the ocean
Jyotika Virmani
22 Feb 2017
We have just taken another momentous step in the journey to unveil the hidden wonders of our own planet!
Since the launch of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE at the American Geophysical Union Fall ...
Robotic Functions Validations: Interview with Jussi Aaltonen
Luís Lopes
27 Jan 2017
The UNEXMIN (Underwater Explorer for Flooded Mines) project is almost one year old. After a busy first year of work, UNEXMIN is on-schedule to deliver the first mechanical UX-1 prototype. Jussi Aalton...
Robotics in harsh environments
Alex Regrettier
04 Nov 2016
In the field of hostile conditions, outer space is often considered the epitome of harsh environments. However, it’s not necessary to travel so far in order to locate situations with extreme condi...
Discussing the future of mining robots
Alex Owen-Hill and Robotiq Inc.
24 Oct 2016
Robots, like Julius from the Mining-ROX project, are a promising option to keep mining economical and safe. In our interview, we spoke with Prof. Bernhard Jung from TU Freiberg about why robots are im...
Mining and nuclear decommissioning: Robots in dangerous and dirty areas
SPARC
03 Jun 2016
Workers have long confronted dangerous and dirty jobs. They’ve had to dig to the bottom of mines, or put themselves in harm's way to decommission ageing nuclear sites. It’s time to make these jobs...
XPRIZE calling all innovators to help map our ocean
Jyotika Virmani
29 Dec 2015
There is a very interesting planet near us. It has almost 130 million square miles of land and the longest continuous mountain chain in the solar system, spanning over 40,000 miles. This planet receiv...
Mining Automation, with Martin Adams
Podcast team
12 Jul 2013
Link to audio file (14:19)
In today’s episode we speak with Martin Adams from the University of Chile about using robots in the mining industry. Mining is a dangerous job that would strongly benef...
Space mining: Robots in the final frontier
Kris Zacny
01 Jul 2013
Over the past two decades, robotic planetary exploration has generated an incredible wealth of knowledge about our neighbors in the Solar System. We now realize that celestial bodies within our reach...
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Demining and defusing, with Frédéric Guerne and Paul Bosscher
Podcast team
15 Jul 2011
Link to audio file (46:31)In this episode we speak with Frédéric Guerne, director of Digger DTR, and with Paul Bosscher, chief robotics engineer at Harris Corp., about robots which assist us in demi...
