Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Neville told a Hoyt Lakes City Council: "My ultimate goal is to build mining robots to bring to the moon, Mars and the ...

OffWorld is now selling autonomous industrial mining robots in countries around the world. The company’s revolutionary systems enable intelligent multi-robot operations at mining sites including ...

Is it possible to replace miners by robots? Or could we use robots to rescue trapped miners? In this article, NPR attempts to answer these questions. It is true that robots would be ideal to fill ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - A Southern Illinois University Carbondale team received first place in NASA’s annual robotics mining competition. The contest, LUNABOTS, featured dozens of teams from around ...

A team of researchers is developing a swarm of robots for space mining projects. The team, which received $500,000 in funding from NASA, envisions the robots will be able to mine, excavate, and even ...

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7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – In the field of robotic development for deep-level mining, innovation "abounds" and several models of robot were ready to be rolled out at South African operations, ...

The company has now demonstrated a proof of concept, by testing a fridge-sized Eureka 1 autonomous underwater vehicle prototype at a depth around 25 m (82 ft). It identified and grabbed relevant rocks ...

A 700-foot-long ship sits off the coast of Papua New Guinea. But this beast isn't even the star of the show—it is the control platform for a trio of even more colossal robots that are about to ...

How are we going to convince governments and corporations to fund the colonization of space? Probably by promising them riches from mining operations. Here are the space robots that will make that ...

When astronauts finally return to the moon for the first time since 1972, they could discover that all the good mining jobs have already been snatched up by robots. A team of University of Arizona ...