The invention relates to an unmanned 
system and operation method of a steel 
ladle casting area. The method comprises the steps that a mechanical arm is prepared, wherein a 
robot grabs the mechanical arm from a mechanical arm standby 
station, the mechanical arm is placed into a fixed bayonet of a locating 
pile, and the mechanical arm is released; a long 
nozzle is prepared, wherein the 
robot takes out the long 
nozzle from a long 
nozzle storage device, the long nozzle approaches a mechanical arm long nozzle backing ring according to the set position, the position of the long nozzle is finely adjusted through a 
robot vision 
recognition system and a mechanical arm recognition mark, and then the long nozzle is placed into the long nozzle backing ring; a sealing part is mounted, wherein the sealing part is grabbed by the robot from a sealing part storage device and is placed into the long nozzle; and the long nozzle is mounted, wherein after a steel 
ladle rotates in place, the mechanical armis grabbed by the robot to drive the long nozzle and a lower nozzle to be aligned, the long nozzle is mounted in, the robot retreats, and the mechanical arm supports the long nozzle and presses the lower nozzle all the time. The unmanned 
system and operation method have the advantages that the mechanical arm and the robot cooperate to replace manual operation, and operations of long nozzle replacement, 
tundish molten steel temperature measuring and sampling, 
tundish covering agent adding and steel 
ladle oxygen pipe burning are completed.