Annotaion of "The Undersea Robot Pilots Working in the BP Oil Disaster"

Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide. (n.d.). Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide. Retrieved April 6, 2011, from http://gizmodo.com/#!5560927/bps-undersea-robots-and-the-people-who-operate-them

This passage began by expressing the opinion of the author, and how he felt about the BP oil disaster. The focus of the article began to change once the author started to talk about how BP is trying to fix it's mistake. It says how BP has invested in four different robotic companies, and they have been using robotic machines to work on the pipes under water. They achieve this by running copper, and fiber optic cables to the robots. They take two people to navigate, one person controlling the direction it moves, and one controlling the arms. There is also video feed from the robot's perspective going back to the pilots control room. This room is very dark and has many computer monitors. The author seems to want to get the point across that without the help of these robots we would be in very big trouble trying to repair the disaster.

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