Are you talking, here, about the use of robotics to make the production of these resources quicker and smoother, or are you thinking more in regard to how digital tech can be used to assist people in the operation of the machinery used?

There are a lot of interesting implications to what you have written here, and while on the human side of things, jobs are likely to be lost, there will be a number of jobs created on the tech side of things - developers, designers, coders, etc.

How much technology is currently used in these types of operations? I would've thought it would be quite a bit, especially where technology can assist in safety requirements.