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Innovation, and Sekal employees.
Drilling
The company has developed Robots use
NASA technology
DrillTronics, a real-time system to
Massachusetts-based Energid Technologies actively control the draw-work, top- is working with Robotic Drilling Systems by drive, and mud pumps to account for providing its robotics software, Actin. It says the dynamic behavior of the well during beta deployments, software testing in which drilling operations. a sampling of the intended audience tried
The system monitors, diagnoses, the product out, are anticipated next year. and controls the drilling process, with
The robot control software, used by several automated functions in addition
NASA and DARPA, will program, monitor, to safeguards and safety triggers. All the and control the robot RDS is developing for functions will be tuned to match, in real o