Autonomous Exploration Robotics
Autonomous robotic systems that explore, map, and reason
in terrain where humans cannot operate.
The Problem
The world spends $12.5 billion a year
looking for critical minerals.
The success rate is 0.5%.
Satellites narrow the search to 10,000 km². After that, it's still humans. Hammers. Notebooks. Handheld instruments. Walking dangerous terrain for years.
The final 5% of precision is the most expensive —
and the least optimized.
We don't tell you where to look.
We tell you what's there.
Mining — Primary Application
$100M+ drilling campaigns before a viable discovery. 12 years of field exploration. Fragmented data. Trial-and-error targeting.
Every wrong drill hole burns capital, time, and credibility. Exploration success rates sit below 1%. Decisions are still made with incomplete ground truth.
Uncharted AI deploys autonomous robots that perform the geological field survey — the phase that every other technology still requires humans to do.
What Changes
Deployed. Not Theoretical.
Defence & Reconnaissance
The same autonomy that surveys mines operates in GPS-denied hostile terrain. Real-time terrain intelligence without human exposure.
Space Exploration
Demonstrated at ESA's LUNA Analog Facility. Lunar regolith extraction with Team ASTROLITH. Curtin University MoU for Mars exploration research.
We will be mining the Moon by 2031.
The Platform
01 — HARDWARE
Tracked platforms built for terrain that breaks everything else. GPS-denied navigation. Extreme temperatures. No roads. No maps. No human operators required.
02 — SENSING
Four sensing modalities fused in real-time on a single platform. Surface and subsurface. Contact and remote. Simultaneously.
No satellite or drone can make contact measurements.
The ground robot is the only platform that can.
03 — INTELLIGENCE
The hardest part isn't collecting data. It's reasoning about it on the edge.
AI that interprets geological signals in real-time. Adapts exploration paths based on what it finds. Builds shared representations across multiple robots.
Sensing → Reasoning → Action.
Closed loop.
The Team
CEO · M.S. Space Robotics
10+ years in space technology and robotics. Founding member of three robotics startups. Led a portfolio of 15 deep tech ventures.
CTO · PhD, Field Robotics
NASA JPL CoSTAR team. DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Postdoc at Polytechnique Montréal. Led 20+ researchers on field robotics missions in extreme environments.
Why Now
The money is here. The deposits are not.
The answer isn't more drilling.
It's better intelligence.
We are not building a feature.
We are building a category.
From The Field
Mining
$12.5B spent annually with declining returns. Why the exploration model is structurally broken and what comes next.
Technology
LiDAR, hyperspectral, XRF, GPR — why contact measurements change everything about field intelligence.
Space
The same autonomy that navigates lunar craters is now reducing drilling uncertainty in the Pilbara.