MEDATech’s Borterra drilling division has created RodBot – a hydraulic, robotic pipe handler specifically for loading and unloading drill rods and casing. It is suitable for mining, construction and the oil and gas industry, as it can be adapted to work on virtually any piece of drilling equipment. Mounted to a drill rig, pipe truck or on a skid, RodBot is an easy tool for operators to master thanks to its computer-assisted controls with embedded collision-avoidance capabilities.
Borterra’s RodBot drill casing manipulator can be retrofitted onto most rig configurations
"Moving drill pipe in and out of the mast can be the bottleneck in the drilling process," Scott Dalrymple, MEDATech senior design engineer and product manager for Borterra, said. "Until now, there has...
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