Oceaneering (OII): Subsea Robots to Autonomous Systems

Industrial Robots Are Already Deployed at Scale

As AI and automation improve, the dream of humanoid robots helping humans in daily tasks is getting closer to reality than ever. Still, this is unlikely to be the first use of autonomous and semi-autonomous devices.

Instead, one immediate application of robots is to deploy them where it is generally unsafe for humans to do so. So far, this has mostly been done with remotely controlled systems, but with increased capacity and autonomy of the AI controlling these robots, many more common uses will spread.

For example, offshore and underwater work environments are notoriously dangerous, with, for example, oil rigs famous for being some of the world’s most dangerous work sites. So the sector has been at the forefront of the adoption of autonomous systems.

Other sectors where automation and autonomous robots are in high demand are defense and aerospace.