Robots take on dangerous offshore oil work

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Robots take on dangerous offshore oil work

BP buys magnetic crawlers.

At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the US Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor. Before MaggHD, dubbed "Maggie" by BP, the dangerous inspection job was reserved for ...

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