ROBOMINERS

ROBOMINERS is a project funded under the European Union's Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020 (grant agreement n°820971) with the strategic objective to facilitate EU access to mineral raw materials. ROBOMINERS' innovative approach combines the creation of a new mining ecosystem with novel ideas from other sectors, in particular with the inclusion of disruptive concepts from robotics... ROBOMINERS' innovative approach combines the creation of a new mining ecosystem with novel ideas from other sectors, in particular with the inclusion of disruptive concepts from robotics. The use of the robot miner will especially be relevant for mineral deposits that are small or difficult to access. This covers both abandoned, nowadays flooded mines, that are not accessible anymore for conventional mining techniques, or places that have formerly been explored but whose exploitation was considered as uneconomic due to the small size of the deposits or the difficulty to access them.