SIH26064HardwareRobotics and Drones

Low-Cost Deployable Seafloor Metal Detection Sensor for Ocean Resource Exploration

Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)

Ideas submitted: 170 / 500
Deadline: 5 October 2026 · closed
Category: Hardware
Theme: Robotics and Drones

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Design and develop a low-cost deployable ocean-bottom sensor that can be released from a research vessel during surveys to detect and map metal-rich seabed deposits, including polymetallic nodules, hydrothermal sulphides, cobalt-rich crusts and rare-earth-element-bearing sediments, providing a rapid and cost-effective tool for deep-ocean mineral exploration.

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What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.
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