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As with humans in space, the real question is, why send humans to do a robot's job? Most work involving undersea cables and wells uses remotely operated vehicle
by Animats 2y ago
As with humans in space, the real question is, why send humans to do a robot's job? Most work involving undersea cables and wells uses remotely operated vehicles, not human divers.
- andrewflnr 2y agoRobots are still very clumsy. I've seen videos of researchers taking minutes to do basic tasks like "yank on a lanyard attached to the ROV" using a robot arm. Oil and gas companies use a lot of robots but they still employ divers.
- ghssds 2y agoHumanity expanded for the last ten thousand years but now all the easy places to expand to are full, making Earth into a prison some people dream of escaping. Sending robots won't help.
- Animats 2y agoThe easy places to expand to are emptying out.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ghost_towns_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Un...