Drillbotics® – Drilling Systems Automation

Drillbotics Challenge Team Updating Guidelines for 2021-2022

The Drillbotics Challenge team updates the competition guidelines every year. They will meet in August to prepare the next update, which should be posted in early September. The basic challenge for 2021-2022 will be very similar …

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 …

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.”

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