Woodside starts 60-month trial with NASA robot

By Ry Crozier on Feb 2, 2017 1:47PM

Up to 300 tasks could be performed by humanoid.

Woodside Energy will begin a 60-month trial of a NASA-built Robonaut that it hopes could be put to work on some 300 tasks across its operations. The gas giant said it had secured the “anthropomorphic robot system” and would jointly explore with NASA “how the robotic technology ...

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