{"id":152360,"date":"2022-12-10T01:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-seabed-mining-uav-has-completed-its-proof-of-concept-operation"},"modified":"2022-12-10T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:25:58","slug":"this-seabed-mining-uav-has-completed-its-proof-of-concept-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-seabed-mining-uav-has-completed-its-proof-of-concept-operation","title":{"rendered":"This seabed mining UAV has completed its proof of concept operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kfn27G0Cv8c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEureka 1\u201d is an innovative underwater drone that can collect rare minerals from the seafloor without causing too much damage to the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Impossible Metals has announced in a press release that \u201cEureka 1,\u201d its first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), has finished its first field test by carefully choosing pebbles to collect in an aquatic environment. This is a big step for the company, which wants to move toward a green economy by finding better ways to mine essential minerals.<\/p>\n<p>This will be important because the demand for these metals will keep going up for the next few decades.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Impossible Metals.<\/p>\n<p>All of this puts a massive strain on mining activities and will lead to a rise in demand for traditional and new ways to get raw materials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/this-seabed-mining-uav-has-completed-its-proof-of-concept-operation\">Continue reading \u201cThis seabed mining UAV has completed its proof of concept operation\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEureka 1\u201d is an innovative underwater drone that can collect rare minerals from the seafloor without causing too much damage to the ecosystem. Impossible Metals has announced in a press release that \u201cEureka 1,\u201d its first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), has finished its first field test by carefully choosing pebbles to collect in an aquatic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}