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No, but I submitted an article a bit earlier about the first drone delivery to a ship. It does occur to me that the same technology being developed for remote
by protomyth 11y ago
No, but I submitted an article a bit earlier about the first drone delivery to a ship. It does occur to me that the same technology being developed for remote surgery could be developed for remote ship repair.
- nradov 11y agoDrones don't have any more range or cargo capacity than piloted helicopters so that's not going to solve anything. No one is going to risk sending a drone to land human technicians on a disabled ship. We are decades away from being able to build remotely operated repair robots that could begin to approach the capability and reliability of human technicians. Building a surgical robot that stays fixed in one operating room and moves a limited set of tools a few inches is orders of magnitude easier than building a robot that can roam around a huge ship and repair the hull, engine, electrical systems, painting, etc.
- protomyth 11y agoI would expect the droids on board to be built into the ship at strategic places. Since this whole automated thing won't happen for a bit, I would bet drones will improve and might just drop parts depending on the quality of the bots. If they build automated ships, I would expect they would be built to have automated repairs.