Successful autonomous flight test in open pit mine in Itea, Delphi, Greece for the M4Mining EU project.

RAI Sub-T lab partners with UOULU to start 6G testing for advanced robotics

The interview on Sveriges Radio on our activities towards multi-robot exploration of mining environments.

Avijit Banerjee, researcher at the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) group, strive to contribute to the field of space robotics and autonomy towards shaping the future of space exploration and space inhabitancy. There is yet far more to discover, for example the celestial bodies that hide treasures like unexplored caves. Autonomous space robotics opens to a whole new type of exploration in space.

On 23 August, India was the fourth nation to land on the Moon, and the first nation ever to land on the lunar south pole, at the rim of the Shackleton crater. What is unknown to most of us, is that behind the complicated autonomous soft-landing of the lander, Chadrayaan-3, is the researcher Avijit Banerjee, who is now part of the research group in Robotics and AI at Luleå University of Technology.

Luleå University of Technology is now strengthening its research programme to meet the need for deeper, safer and smarter underground mines. The AI and Robotics research group, together with Epiroc, the Swedish manufacturer of mining and infrastructure equipment, and the tech company Algoryx are now challenging today’s limits in autonomous navigation in a new project.

The Robotics and AI-team at Luleå University of Technology has been very successful in recent years – with many accomplished projects and prosperous collaborations with other universities and the local industry. The Robotics and AI-team is thriving and now they are building a new underground research facility underground.

Is garbage the new circular gold? In 2040, the city of Zaragoza in Spain will be completely climate neutral – and this will happen by revolutionizing the city's waste management, where Luleå University of technology will play a part.

Dr. Akshit Saradagi from the Robotics and AI group at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden will discuss how a novel LiDAR and event camera fusion framework works in subterranean (SubT) environments for object and human detection with a Pioneer 3AT mobile robot.

Keeping one satellite in orbit takes quite the effort; now imagine managing 648 of them at once, while adding more. Increasing the amount of satellites in space, while keeping them in orbit without hitting anything, is a key issue which the European Space Agency, ESA, is looking for a solution to — and where the Robotics and AI team at Luleå University of Technology might just have the answer.

By using cutting edge technology and research, Luleå University of Technology will turn Norrbotten into the most advanced region in terms of the adaptation of robotics and AI in all of Europe.

– This is the future of industry, George Nikolakopoulos, Professor of Robotics and AI says.