Europe’s valuable mineral deposits can only be exploited, if the very strict legal and environmental requirements are met and the local communities do not perceive mining operations as a risk to their livelihood, rather as a source of work, income and prosperity.

LTU Robotics and AI team during illuMINEation develop autonomous drones as agile inspectors, first response units, and data link extenders for underground mines.

The vision is that in the mines of the future, machines will do all the work. To realize this vision, you must develop an essential element – something else that can perform dangerous tasks efficiently and independently.

Welcome to Hall 2, stall 22/2 to learn all you need to know about vortex climbing robots for infrastructure inspection.

ROBOSOL workshop meeting at Vetenskapens hus in Luleå Sweden. We present an extensive overview of our 3 years work on robotic technologies for strengthening the innovation ecosystem. The project had been supported from Interreg Nord and Länsstyrelsen Norrbotten.

Sina Sharif Mansouri, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, has been awarded the 2020 Prize for the best Doctoral dissertation at Luleå University of Technology by Vattenfall.

Luleå University of Technology has four research projects at the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering' (IVA) 100 list 2022. This year's focus is technology in the service of humanity. The selected research projects are all considered to have significant potential to benefit through commercialization, business and method development or societal impact.

December 6, 2021 was the kick-off meeting for CDT's new project 5G Edge Innovations for Mining. The project is led by Luleå University of Technology and CDT with parties such as RISE, BI Nordics, FieldRobotiX, ThingWave and Neava.

Last week, Swedish Mining Innovation’s annual Program day was held as a digital event. During the day, current information was presented on what is happening along the entire value chain, everything from the program’s major strategic investments to updates from ongoing pre-studies and full-scale and pilot projects.

The project aims to create more intelligent mining systems that will further push the boundaries of autonomy, productivity and security.

In the near future, autonomous aerial robots will monitor and repair ageing infrastructure, creating a more secure operational environment for humans. How we get there? Project AERO-TRAIN aims at educating the future researchers in the field of Aerial Robotics that will find the technical solutions. – I believe this project is building the future of human robot interaction in autonomous aerial inspection missions, says George Nikolakopoulos, Professor of Robotics and AI.

Darpa has selected eight teams to compete for a prize competition in which the winner will receive $2 million, the runner-up will get $1 million, and third place will earn half a million dollars.

The DARPA SubT Challenge aims to develop innovative technologies that can rapidly map, navigate, and search complex underground environments such as human-made tunnel systems, urban undergrounds, and natural cave networks. Teams compete by demonstrating how their autonomy, networking, perception, and mobility capabilities perform on either physical courses in the Systems Competition or simulated environments in the Virtual Competition.

The Robotics and AI research group continues its successful journey in NASA/JPL’s team CoSTAR in the Subterranean Challenge, the biggest robotics competition in the world. The team won the second circuit of the competition and is now preparing for the third and last overall combined challenges.

The Robotics team at Luleå University of Technology is world class when it comes to Robotics and specifically drone technology. As part of NASA’s team in the Subterranean Challenge, they successfully came in second place in the world in the first circuit of the prestigious competition.