Research Projects

Robominers

Resilient Bio-inspired Modular Robotic Miners

Entidad financiadora: Unión Europea, programme Horizon 2020 “New solutions for the sustainable produc-tion of raw materials”. Project grant agreement n°820971.
Entidades participantes: Tampere University of Technology (Finland ), Montanuniversitat Leoben( Aus-tria),Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles (Belgium),Associacao Portuguesa dos Industriais de Marmores e Ramos Afins (Portugal), La Palma Research Centre SL(Spain), University of Miskolc (Hungary), Federation Europeenne des Geologues (Belgium), Geoloski Zavod Slovenije (Slovenia), Resources Computing Interna-tional Ltd (United Kingdom), Geo-Montan Geologus Ltd, (Hungary), Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), Polska Academia Nauk Instytut Gospodarki Surowcami Mineralnymi i Energia (Poland), K-UTEC AG (Germa-ny). Duración, desde: 01/06/19 hasta: 31/05/23
Cuantía de la subvención: 7.475.900 € (UPM 711.875€)

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ROBOMINERS is a project funded under the European Union’s Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020 (grant agreement n°820971) within 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.