{"id":94864,"date":"2023-08-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/robots-geologists-bill-gates-financing\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:29:19","slug":"robots-geologists-bill-gates-financing","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/robots-geologists-bill-gates-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Geology robots? Company financed by Bill Gates is creating them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspenet, August 12, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Gates has expressed the need for <strong>geological robots<\/strong> to facilitate the search for resources below the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, his company Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) has provided generous funding to a mining technology startup called GeologicAl. The Microsoft co-founder has a genuine interest in promoting the development of robotics applied to geological activities and it seems that GeologicAl has the solution to fulfill this purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Partnership with GeologicAl to create geological robots<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The startup&#8217;s director, Yannai Segal, has expressed his agreement with Gates&#8217; opinion. Both share the goal of creating robotic devices that allow them to investigate and understand what lies beneath the earth&#8217;s surface. During the interview, Segal commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe that a better geological understanding is the win-win point for a more efficient, environmentally and economical mining industry and that multi-sensor machine vision is the best way to better understand rocks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEV has made a significant grant of funds, providing $20 million to support GeologicAl in implementing this new technology that will undoubtedly take <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/ecological-mining-preserving-the-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"articulo\" data-id=\"93460\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mining<\/a><\/strong> to the next level by providing a much-needed boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to improving the understanding of unknown underground drifts, there is a broader goal behind this AI-driven geological robotics: to discover and harness more and better mining resources for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is expected of these mining robots<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, mining prospections were expensive and sometimes did not give the desired results. Therefore, it is expected that these <strong>mining robots powered by artificial intelligence<\/strong> can reach places inaccessible to humans and, moreover, more economically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finding mineral resources has become crucial for today&#8217;s society, according to Bill Gates and Yannai Segal. With the technological revolution underway and the transition to cleaner energy sources, increasingly scarce minerals will be needed in known deposits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future is already here and it has arrived almost imperceptibly. Not only will there be mining robots, but there are already robots of various forms and functions, from four-legged robots with built-in flamethrowers to robots assisting in military maneuvers around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source and photo: https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/urbantecno\/robotica\/esta-empresa-financiada-por-bill-gates-se-encarga-de-desarrollar-geologos-robot-esta-es-su-mision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspenet, August 12, 2023.<br \/>\nBill Gates-owned company BEV has provided generous funding to mining technology startup GeologicAl. Gates has a genuine interest in promoting the development of robotics applied to geological activities and it seems that GeologicAl has the solution to fulfill this purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8403,"featured_media":94431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13030,13060],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-94864","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-industry","categoria_noticias-mining"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/94864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/94864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=94864"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=94864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}