Robohub.org
c-Exploration-Mining
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.
ep.
337
podcast
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...
ep.
333
podcast
Snake-like Robot as a Worker Companion, with Matt Bilsky
Kate Zhou
27 May 2021
Robohub Podcast · Snake-like Robot as a Worker Companion - FLX BOT
Matt Bilsky, founder and CEO of FLX Solutions, discusses the snake-like robot he invented called the FLX BOT. The FLX BOT consist...
ep.
326
podcast
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...
ep.
325
podcast
The Advantage of Fins, with Benjamin Pietro Filardo
Abate De Mey
16 Dec 2020
Robohub Podcast · The Advantage of Fins
Abate interviews Benjamin "Pietro" Filardo, CEO and founder of Pliant Energy Systems. At PES, they developed a novel form of actuation using two undulating ...
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 ...
The Drone Center’s Weekly Roundup: 7/24/17
July 17, 2017 – July 23, 2017
If you would like to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox, please subscribe at the bottom of the page.
News
A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan is reported...
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...
Rapid outdoor/indoor 3D mapping with a Husky UGV
Clearpath Robotics
09 Jul 2017
by Nicholas Charron
The need for fast, accurate 3D mapping solutions has quickly become a reality for many industries wanting to adopt new technologies in AI and automation. New applications requir...
More efficient and safer: How drones are changing the workplace
Jonathan Downey
23 Jun 2017
Technology-driven automation plays a critical role in the global economy, and its visibility in our lives is growing. As technology impacts more and more jobs, individuals and enterprises find themsel...
Xponential 2017 in images
The National Robotics Education Foundation
25 May 2017
The Xponential 2017 national conference was held May 8-11 by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The even...
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...
Dr Rustam Stolkin and robots that learn: Nuclear robotics meets machine learning
The Royal Society and Susannah Odell
27 Apr 2017
How can we create robots that can carry out important tasks in dangerous environments? Machine learning is supporting advances in the field of robotics. To find out more, we talked to Dr Rustam Stolki...
Want to build a Moon base? Easy, just print it
Morgan Saletta
21 Apr 2017
Planetary Resources, a company hoping to make asteroid mining into a trillion dollar industry, earlier this year unveiled the world’s first 3D printed object made from bits of an asteroid.
3D pri...
UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
SPH Engineering
09 Mar 2017
UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
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...
Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change
Horizon Magazine
26 Jan 2017
The shells on crustaceans and molluscs off the Norwegian Atlantic coast are not as thick as they once were. This is because of ocean acidification, where increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphe...
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...
Unmanned and underneath: Stay in the know about underwater drones
Dan Gettinger
02 Nov 2016
Editor's note: This article is adapted from a post from November 2015 and includes recent developments and updated spending figures.
In October 2016, the U.K. Royal Navy hosted Unmanned Warr...
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...
Into the heart of a glacier — with a drone
Adrien Briod and Hallie Siegel
20 Jan 2016
With their near-vertical walls and deep fractures, glacier crevasses are dangerously narrow ice caves that present a huge risk to search and rescue teams. In a partnership between Flyability (Winne...
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...
New $7M XPRIZE competition seeks to usher in a new era of ocean exploration
XPRIZE
17 Dec 2015
At a keynote address this week during the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE, announced the launch of the $7M Shell Ocean Discover...
What you need to know about underwater drones
Dan Gettinger
16 Nov 2015
Late last month, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus appointed Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to become the first deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for unmanned systems, a position that was created in April...
Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
Thomas Schmickl
15 Oct 2015
Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...
Air and ground robot collaborate to map and safely navigate unknown, changing terrain
Autonomous Systems Lab and Péter Fankhauser
05 Oct 2015
This video shows how a robot team can work together to map and navigate toward a goal in an unknown terrain that may change over time. Using an onboard monocular camera, a flying robot first scouts th...
Day One at euRathlon 2015: Video recap
Marta Palau Franco
21 Sep 2015
Inspired by the 2011 Fukushima accident, euRathlon is a civilian outdoor robotics competition focused on realistic cooperative disaster response scenarios. euRathlon 2015 takes place in the area surro...
#eurathlon2015 tests robotic air/land/sea systems in realistic emergency response scenarios
Marta Palau Franco
16 Sep 2015
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami and earthquake struck Fukushima Dai-ichi energy plant causing a major disaster. Since then emergency services have deployed robots to inspect the area and collect data. So...
Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
Robohub Editors
24 Jun 2015
FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
Philae: A proof of concept for cometary landing
Alan Winfield
01 Dec 2014
We asked Alan Winfield what the first successful landing on a comet means for the future of space mining. Find out his answer below.
The successful landing of Philae on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasim...
One giant leap: Rosetta and the space mining frontier
Kris Zacny
24 Nov 2014
The Rosetta mission’s dramatic rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko captured the attention and imagination of the world earlier this month. It was thrilling to see an ambitious 10-year pr...
Minesweepers: Towards a landmine-free world
Alaa Khamis
28 Apr 2014
Minesweepers International Outdoor Robotic Competition on Humanitarian Demining
Detection and removal of antipersonnel landmines is, at present, a serious problem of political, economical, environm...
