Fracking Robots in the Works as Halliburton Digitizes Oil Field
Workers walk towards Halliburton Co. "sand castles" at an Anadarko Petroleum Corp. hydraulic fracturing (fracking) site north of Dacono, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014.
Photographer: Jamie Schwaberow/Bloomberg
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Rack up one more thing robots can be used for: Fracking for oil.
Bots already are used to vacuum floors, build cars and do heart surgery. Now, Halliburton Co. wants to add fracking to the to-do list.