Russia Replacing Oil Workers With Robots

In the not too distant future, oil workers in Russia could be supervised by an artificial intelligence program dubbed Cyclops. Sputnik reports that the program, developed by a state program for funding high-tech research, could also be applied to other industries, including mining, transport and logistics, and financial services, among others. According to one executive involved in the program, it can be implemented anywhere where there are surveillance cameras since they are where the Cyclops gets its data from. In the oil industry, the Cyclops…