Robot heads for North Sea oil rigs in 'world first' scheme

Test to pave way for using autonomous machines for dangerous operations offshore instead of humansAn autonomous robot will be deployed to an offshore oil and gas platform in the North Sea later this year, in a first for the sector.The £4m project’s backers said the move was designed to take humans out of dangerous and dull jobs, and reinvent oil and gas as an industry of the future. Continue reading...