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MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – As the Permian Basin is the leading area for oil in the United States, creating ways to make workflow seamless is becoming the future. That future includes technology in the form of drones. Dann Schantz has been an advocate for this practice for several years from …

Since helicopters appeared some 80 years ago, they’ve used a single high-speed tail rotor to counteract the torque of the main rotor, stabilizing the aircraft in flight. But that rotor is both the key source of noise for helicopters and a big safety risk while on the ground. Now veteran …

Mike Campigotto envisions a day when an autonomous drone can wake up underground, fly a pre-determined route recording the specs of a stope, return to its docking station, and upload the data to a server – all before the mine supervisor has had their morning coffee. It’s not as far …