Platforms Built and Proven on Earth

In development. The core specifications below are confirmed; figures may be refined as the system is built and tested.

Drilling is the hard part of resource development — and the part that most needs to become autonomous. Our drill program extends the same architecture as our rovers to the act of boring itself: an operator defines where work should happen — a bore grid over an area, or a line along a path — sets spacing and depth, and the rig plans and executes the program, hole by hole, reporting progress as it goes.

The rig is a 3 kW electric-pneumatic drill with pneumatic feed and an automatic rod handler, so it can add and break rods to reach depth without hands on the rig. It is teleoperated through a web interface and runs basic autonomous routines for repetitive sequences, carries 13 kWh of onboard energy, and bores to 10 m (30 ft).

The goal is to move production volumes of material economically and reliably, with people supervising rather than operating.