This session will describe how robotics can simulate operator rounds with many humanlike capabilities such as sight, hearing, smell, and tactile feel, which allow them to read gauges, record sound signatures, use thermal imaging to read hot and cold spots, and determine valve positions as the first steps toward to enabling autonomous operations. Discover how robots are becoming part of the mainstream in industrial operations, how they can perform the “dull, dirty and dangerous” tasks and allow workers to perform more meaningful tasks, and how they can perform tasks to enable operations having difficulty placing new employees.