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Informative article, but a picture is worth a thousand words. While I appreciate the picture of a drill ship in the ocean, it would have been more informative t
by gjkood 10y ago
Informative article, but a picture is worth a thousand words. While I appreciate the picture of a drill ship in the ocean, it would have been more informative to see a single picture of one of these robots.
I guess since the focus of the article was the effect on related labor and not on the technology itself, a picture was deemed irrelevant. But when the title leads with 'Robots...' I want to see a picture of a robot.
You may ask why I can't just google them, but alas, I am too lazy to google for the robot in question.
- ferongr 10y agoI think that it's not really "robots" (it's click-bait) but rather greater automation of new platforms and ships, e.g. more networked sensors instead of analog gauges, servo-controlled valves etc. Also possibly robotic drill pipe handling (i.e. a purpose-built mechanism http://www.drillingcontractor.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/web_Manipulator-Arm.jpg http://www.drillingcontractor.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09... ) Maybe an underwater drone or two for inspection instead of using divers.
- gjkood 10y agoThanks for the image. I coach a First Tech Challenge robotics team and seeing all the different configurations for robots doing automatable tasks gives me ideas that I can present to the team when they have to come up with designs to solve problems.
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoYou piqued my interest and I'm less lazy. This seems to be the sales pitch for an unautomated version that seems to give a good feel for what's going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPiszqZnz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPiszqZnz4 This looks to be one of the more automated versions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D4F3Vo4nzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D4F3Vo4nzM And this one of the more manual processes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLALzUft8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLALzUft8Y
- gjkood 10y agoThank you MM for picking up the slack :). I was merely venting on a pet peeve of mine. Very informative videos.
- PeterisP 10y agoSo it's less like robots doing stuff autonomously and more like larger specialized power tools that can allow 1-2 people to run a process that used to require 3-4 people.
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoMmm - it's a continuum. This one looks like it's entirely telepresence - the only part that may be missing is the software to make it fully automatic, and perhaps some of the sensors depending on where they've hidden the control station (e.g. is some of it line-of-sight control): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvI8XMaRBJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvI8XMaRBJY
- cr0sh 10y ago> You may ask why I can't just google them, but alas, I am too lazy to google for the robot in question. This is the specific device they talked about, the "Iron Roughneck": https://www.nov.com/Segments/Rig_Systems/Offshore/Iron_Roughnecks/AR3200_Automated_Iron_Roughneck/AR3200_Automated_Iron_Roughneck.aspx https://www.nov.com/Segments/Rig_Systems/Offshore/Iron_Rough... As you can see, it looks nothing like what you probably imagined - but if you've seen the manual process performed before (a dangerous and hard job, btw), you probably can understand (somewhat) how this machine works.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoFWIW, I almost guarantee you the justification for this is safety. That's the best kind of automation.