Robotic Mine Exploration

Posted by timothy on Saturday May 24, 2003 @07:58AM from the way-down-deep dept.

Punty writes "CMU has yet again pushed the envelope of robotic technology. After the Quecreek mine incident, technology experts made a quick move to come up with solutions to mine mapping. Well, CMU has made major progress thanks to Red Wittaker, who created the Mobile Robotics Development Course with such goals in mind. It is especially interesting to see that it is the students doing most of the work in such a complex project. The full story, along with links to the "Groundhog" and "Nomad" projects can be found here. . ."

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Cool by Rxke · 2003-05-24 16:41 · Score: 2, Interesting

... But I initially confused The title for saying actually exploiting mines... Would be cool to have something like that, too... a lot less people would have to risk their lives, that way. Also, imagine robot miners on the moon, on mars... Let them loose for a couple of months, years,... and hey presto: ready to use subsurface tunnels for manned missions, with a bounty of ore, ready to process, to boot.