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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Robots: The Future of the Oil Industry

Robots: The Future of the Oil Industry

By on August 30, 2012
NASA’s Mars rover may have something to teach the oil industry. Safely traversing the Red Planet while beaming data through space turns out to have a lot in common with exploring the deepest recesses of earth in search of crude oil and natural gas. Robotic Drilling Systems, a small Norwegian company that’s bent on developing a drilling rig that can think for itself, has signed an information-sharing agreement with NASA to discover what it might learn from Curiosity. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-30/robots-the-future-of-the-oil-industry

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