Robots for the places you would rather not send people. Agents for the decisions that cannot wait.
One practice, because on a gold mine the machine that gathers the data and the intelligence that acts on it should be designed together. We build and support robotic systems for underground inspection, UAV survey, tailings monitoring and lab automation, and we build the agents that turn their output - plus assays, historians and schedules - into grade forecasts, maintenance decisions, dispatch changes and finished reports. Every robot is engineered for dust, vibration and intermittent connectivity; every agent runs with guardrails, an audit trail and a person at the last step.
Fimiston Open Pit (Super Pit), Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
What we build under robotics and AI agents.
Underground inspection robots
Ground-support, stope and drift inspection with LiDAR, thermal and gas sensing so people stay out of unsupported ground.
UAV survey & tailings monitoring
Scheduled drone flights for pit volumetrics, heap leach coverage and TSF embankments, feeding reconciliation and dam-safety records.
Lab & sample automation
Automated sample prep, tracking and fire-assay handling that lifts grade-control throughput and removes manual error.
Autonomy & teleoperation retrofits
Retrofit kits for loaders, drills and utility vehicles, including exclusion-zone and proximity safety.
Grade & blending intelligence
Agents that combine assays, sensors and the block model to forecast head grade and recommend blends for the next shift.
Predictive maintenance agents
Failure prediction for mills, crushers, pumps and fleet, with work orders raised in your EAM before the breakdown.
Dispatch & schedule optimisation
Continuous re-optimisation of truck assignments, development sequencing and plant feed against real-time constraints.
Compliance & reporting agents
Automated drafting of regulator, ESG and dam-safety reports from source data, with human sign-off before submission.
What the crew actually sees.
A representative screen from a robotics and AI agents deployment. Every interface is built for gloves, glare and a shift that does not stop.
- assays.queryRead overnight assays (412 samples)
- 2historian.readPull mill power, density and throughput
- 3model.forecastForecast head grade for shift C
- 4stockpile.diffCompare plan vs stockpile inventory
- 5erp.draftDraft blend change and shift note
What a deployment looks like.
Representative engagements, described the way we would scope them with you. Every one starts as a pilot on a single shaft, pit, circuit or process.
Every run is a visible sequence of tool calls, and the last step is always a person.
Post-blast re-entry inspection
A tracked robot inspects the heading for gas, ground movement and misfires before crews re-enter, cutting re-entry time and risk.
Weekly pit and stockpile survey
Automated UAV missions produce volumetrics and reconciliation-ready surfaces without survey crews on the bench.
Head-grade forecasting agent
Predicts mill feed grade 24 to 72 hours ahead and flags when the plan and the stockpile disagree.
Mill relining and bearing watch
Monitors vibration, temperature and power draw, predicts wear and schedules the intervention into the next shutdown window.
Cyanide and carbon replenishment
Tracks consumption against throughput and lead times, and drafts orders before stock hits the safety level.
TSF surveillance to environmental return
Drone passes capture embankment and freeboard readings; an agent drafts the monthly return for the environmental lead to approve.
Outcomes we design for.
- Fewer people exposed to unsupported ground, heights and dust
- Inspection and survey cycles measured in hours, not weeks
- Decisions made on forecasts instead of last week's numbers
- Unplanned downtime caught before it becomes a stoppage
- Hours of reporting collapsed into minutes of review
- Every robot mission and agent action logged, explainable and reversible
Technology & integrations.
- ROS 2
- LiDAR / SLAM
- Thermal & gas sensing
- UAV photogrammetry
- Edge compute
- Frontier LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- Custom ML models
- Tool use & guardrails
- Human-in-the-loop workflows
- VPC or on-premise deployment
Vendor-neutral by default. We work with what is already on site and recommend new tooling only when it removes a bottleneck.
Before we talk robotics and AI agents.
Have a problem robotics and AI agents could fix?
A stope that is hard to inspect, a reconciliation that never balances, a report that eats a week every month. We will scope a pilot around it, price it, and tell you honestly whether it is worth doing.