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How about a robotic moon program? An all-robot base, with lots of rovers exploring and digging. They could work for years, rather than short visits by humans.
by Animats 2y ago
How about a robotic moon program? An all-robot base, with lots of rovers exploring and digging. They could work for years, rather than short visits by humans.
The moon is close enough that you can teleoperate robots, although the 2.5 second lag means you have to have autonomy for at least balance. That's where Tesla's robots are now.
- defrost 2y agoAs you're very likely already aware; Tank on the Moon (2007) is a French documentary film about the development, launch, and operation of the Soviet Moon exploration rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2 in the period from 1970 to 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_on_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_on_the_Moon on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0K2-Tf3Ko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0K2-Tf3Ko A bit of sometimes overlooked history. It's about time for a larger scale robot base .. good trial run for elsewhere at even greater distances.