{"id":5674,"date":"2025-03-07T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/?page_id=5674"},"modified":"2025-03-07T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:59:39","slug":"minotaur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/minotaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Autonomous In-Situ Exploration of Critical Raw Materials In Deep Land Deposits (MINOTAUR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 781w, https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x438.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 85vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>MINOTAUR seeks to address the exploration drilling problem from a novel and revolutionary perspective, bringing together geological principles and concepts involved in exploration drilling with modern technologies such as robotics, digital twin technology, and artificial intelligence. Along the way, MINOTAUR proposes novel research directions in allied areas like geophysics, sensing technologies in geology, environmental impact modeling of whole mineral and production systems, numerical modeling of entire mineral systems related to critical raw materials, new drilling techniques, high-resolution sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence with novel data processing tools for a robust and expeditious geological assessment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>MINOTAUR takes a fundamentally fresh look at exploration drilling and approaches it as a source-seeking and resourcing mapping problem, drawing inspirations from solutions in robotics, but where geology is a central part of the decision, with the outcomes of exploration enhanced through artificial intelligence and digital twin technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Duration<\/td><td>11.2024-10.2027<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Members<\/td><td>\u2013 Lule\u00e5 University of Technology<br>\u2013 IMA-Europe<br>\u2013 TERNA MAG<br>\u2013 The University of Patras<br>\u2013 Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology<br>\u2013 Technical University of Denmark<br>\u2013 IST-ID<br>\u2013 Community Forged Innovation<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Budget<\/td><td>5 mln Euro<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Funding<\/td><td>Horizon Europe<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Official website:<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minotaur-mining.eu\/\"><strong>https:\/\/www.minotaur-mining.eu\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement No. 101178775.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Project consortium:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2.png 941w, https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-2-768x696.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINOTAUR seeks to address the exploration drilling problem from a novel and revolutionary perspective, bringing together geological principles and concepts involved in exploration drilling with modern technologies such as robotics, digital twin technology, and artificial intelligence. Along the way, MINOTAUR proposes novel research directions in allied areas like geophysics, sensing technologies in geology, environmental impact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/minotaur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Autonomous In-Situ Exploration of Critical Raw Materials In Deep Land Deposits (MINOTAUR)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5680,"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5674\/revisions\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmc.pwr.edu.pl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}