Oil and gas producers are moving from traditional automation to true autonomy. Central autonomous control rooms now dispatch ground robots and drones that inspect assets, capture high‑fidelity data, and even carry out simple maintenance tasks. When an anomaly is detected, the system launches an autonomous mission, streams live video, and lets remote specialists guide action inside a digital twin of the facility. This approach lowers human exposure to hazardous areas, enables continuous monitoring, and cuts unplanned downtime. Early pilots show tangible gains: downtime events drop by about 25-30%, inspections finish in minutes rather than hours, and operating costs fall by roughly 30% while safety performance rises.
We talked with Matt Graves, EMEA Digital Sales Director for Process, about how the Robot Metaverse Integrated Solution from Rockwell Automation unifies fleets from multiple vendors, orchestrates missions, and contextualizes sensor data in FactoryTalk DataMosaix, giving operators one interface for supervision, analytics, and scaling across sites. The result is a practical, phased pathway that starts with a single robot and grows to full autonomous maintenance across global assets. Watch this QuickChat to learn more.
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