AI-powered swarm robots aim to disrupt mining industry
AI-powered robotic platform maker OffWorld has announced that it is now taking orders for delivery of multi-species deployments of its AI-powered industrial swarm robotic mining systems commencing in 2024. The new line of autonomous robot species is built for surveying environments (on the surface and deep underground), performing precision excavation, and collecting, hauling, and processing material.
The company says that it is demonstrating that swarm robotic mining improves customer productivity and cost efficiency.
“We’re thrilled to offer swarms of intelligent robots to our customers,” says Jim Keravala, OffWorld Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder. “We have worked tirelessly for the past seven years to make today a reality. We are disrupting the conventional mining industry for the better; saving human lives, lowering our carbon footprint, transforming the economics of distressed assets and hard to mine ore, while also creating new jobs in machine programming, artificial intelligence, engineering, deployment, and extreme operations. We are looking forward to applying our multi-robot operations in every corner of the planet and are humbled to help play an important role in designing the future.”
The user-friendly robots work in squads and, says the company, can produce from hundreds of tons to well over one million tons of ore annually in a single mining operation allowing for previously unattainable versatility in new mine operations within months instead of years. They are rugged, autonomous, and can work around the clock. Their software architecture leverages machine learning allowing them to work with and eventually learn from human experts.
The application of these fully electric robotic mining swarms, says the company, will leave a zero-mining carbon footprint behind, replacing the use of explosives with precision mining, and will save human lives by removing them from dangerous work conditions for years to come. The company is ISO 9001 certified and has developed IP including directed beam energy technology for weakening and preconditioning material before extraction.
The company says that it has already secured multi-year contracts with top-tier mining companies around the world, and will also be adapting the multi-species robots to provide solutions across other industries including construction, infrastructure, utilities, and space.
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