Never send a man to do a robot’s job.
A silver mine in Mexico was recently scanned and mapped with the aid of robotic technology. 3D-R1 used sophisticated scanning equipment to map over 100 million data points by performing 80 scans of the area per day.
To complete the task, the robot, controlled remotely, relies on a long range 3-D scanner to gather data. It’s also fitted with the software to inperet the data and a high-resolution digital camera.
The entire scan took just over 3 days and covered 1.4 miles of underground landscape. Because of 3D-R1, old mine drawings have been replaced with accurate 3-D maps.
