Drillbotics® – Drilling Systems Automation

Sponsorships Available for 2021-2022

Drillbotics is now accepting sponsorships for the 2021-2022 competition. Get your name and links to your webpage in front of next year's student teams and industry followers. Please click on our sponsorship page for details. …

2020 and 2021 Design Reports and Videos Released (Virtual and Physical Rig)

Due to the pandemic, the 2020 Drillbotics® competition was cancelled. The committee chose to delay publication of any proprietary information in student presentations and reports until the end of the 2021 competition. With the …

2020-2021 Drillbotics® Winners Announced – Group A

The 2021 Phase II test for Group A (Virtual Rig) was held on June 28th. Three teams were able to fight through the pandemic and its continued fallout: cancelled classes, closed labs and no face-to-face student meetings. Of the …

Autonomous Drilling with a Miniature Drilling Rig

“Design a drilling rig and related equipment to autonomously drill a vertical well as quickly as possible while maintaining borehole quality and integrity of the drilling rig and drillstring.”

There are two buttons: start and stop.