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Automation’s

Growth Curve

RoboPlatform coming to waters near you, sooner than you think

By Bob Felton Walloid is a prototype robot that is capable to hen a feature published in 2008 speculated that climb in the oil and gas offshore environment.

W “offshore platforms could soon be run by robots

Although it’s still an ongoing project of Akbar alone, with human beings staying on land,” a com-

Moghaddam and his team, they are testing it and menter in an online discussion group at gCaptain.