Where autonomy meets granular material.
A beachhead in mining automation, expanding into construction and agriculture — anywhere a machine has to move a pile of something and needs to learn how.
Mining automation
Autonomous excavation and loading. Perth, Western Australia is the global mining epicentre — the largest autonomous fleets in the world run in our backyard. Teaching a machine to dig is a granular-physics problem, and that is where the value pool concentrates.
- Training autonomous dig and load cycles
- Bucket–material interaction in real ore
- Sim-to-real transfer onto live muck piles
Construction robotics
Autonomous earthmoving and site preparation. Excavator-autonomy teams need exactly the digging physics we build — soil and aggregate that behaves correctly under a bucket, at training speed.
- Excavator and loader autonomy
- Soil and aggregate response under a bucket
- Grading and site-prep policy training
Agriculture & grain
Harvesting and grain-handling robotics — free-flowing granular media end to end. Three billion tonnes of grain are harvested, moved, and stored every year.
- Harvester and grain-handling autonomy
- Machine–grain interaction at interactive speed
- Free-flowing granular media for policy training
Robotics & autonomy teams
Training manipulation and locomotion policies that have to survive contact with real ground.
OEMs & equipment makers
Validating autonomous digging and handling equipment against material-true physics before the field.
Research labs
Reproducible granular environments for sim-to-real research.
Robotics team automating granular work?
Mining, construction, or agriculture — if your robots dig, load, or handle bulk material, we'll show you the scenario in NDEM. Tell us what you're building.