Robots Are Taking Over Oil Rigs… But Not How You Think

Andrew Richard, CEO and Co-Founder of Automated Rig Technologies, flies in from Calgary to break down why the oilfield spent 70 years optimizing brute force instead of rethinking the process. He gets into the jointed pipe injector that strips 97% of operator input out, what rig hands call the "barbecue basket," why everyone in oil and gas wants to be first to be second, and the IKEA chatbot that accidentally solved the automation jobs debate.

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00:00 - Calgary, metaverse throwbacks, and meet Andrew

02:20 - What Automated Rig Technologies actually does

05:50 - Starting in the basement in 2009

07:44 - The jointed pipe injector breakdown

09:13 - Red zone risk and the barbecue basket

17:05 - From Energy Tech Night pitch to the Bakken trial