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Those robots were designed 20 years ago... You can send now a whole swarm of humanoid robots, that would recharge 24x7 out of a KRUSTY Reactor [1], you did not
by inaros 8mo ago
Those robots were designed 20 years ago... You can send now a whole swarm of humanoid robots, that would recharge 24x7 out of a KRUSTY Reactor [1], you did not even had LLMs then.
[1] - https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20205009350/downloads/03-KRUSTY%20Reactor%20Design.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20205009350/downloads/03...
- probably_wrong 8mo agoNo, we really can't send something like that now. Or at least not if we want it to be useful on arrival. I'll make an educated guess that, as of this moment, there are zero functioning swarms of humanoid robots recharging on such a reactor on Earth. Once we add radiation shielding, software and hardware reliability, landing (marsing?) it all safely and deploying it (among others) I wouldn't be surprised if the earliest arrival time is, unsurprisingly, 20 years in the future.
- UncleMeat 8mo agowhy would a humanoid robot be preferable to one designed for the specific tasks at hand?
- functional_dev 8mo agomaybe humanoids because tools already designed for human likes? if you send specialised robot it cannot use wrench or climb a ladder... you have to redesign everything
- UncleMeat 8mo agoThere are currently no wrenches or ladders on mars.