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Today Fort McMurray! Tomorrow the Moon!
Nicolas Olmedo, president of Edmonton’s Copperstone Technologies, has big dreams for his robotics company, but not without some justification.
Olmedo and Copperstone have designed a series of autonomous robots that can already go to places and do work that is extremely difficult for humans to manage.
Copperstone’s amphibious robots specialize in propelling themselves into industrial tailings ponds at mines and oilsands facilities so that measur