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Robotic Space Workers of the Future
Roland Piquepaille writes "In an article named "Puckish robots pull together," Nature describes the work done at the Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory (PRL) of the University of Southern California on self-reconfigurable teams of robots. There, Wei-Min Shen and his colleagues simulate the absence of gravity by creating a 2D representation of space by using an 'air-hockey table.' With jets of air flow blowing on the surface, the 30 cm-wide robots, working in pairs, evolve in a frictionless environment, pick elements such as girders to assemble structures like if they were in space. NASA will use these teams of autonomous robots to build space systems like 10 km-long arrays of solar panels and other huge spatial structures. You'll find more details, illustrations and references in this overview."
Nah... They been using robot's to replace people all over the place. What better then space... No comfy jeffrey tubes to ***** in, all programmable.. let's hope they're running a more reliable version on Linux then the english (JK)... but seriously... This is where it needs to go if it is going to go anywhere... Saves live's, space, in space, blah blah blah...
If robots do everything, what are we humans useful for?
Not only will we get to live pointless lives from a functional point ofview, but we will also get to starve to death unless we can do a job robots can't do. Why do we want to compete with robots?!
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
I want robots to be as stupid as insects forever, this way we will all have jobs as programmers at least. The day robots can learn is the day humans go exstinct. There is simply no way for us to compete with robots that can learn.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
Say we do live in your dream world of high tech utopia filled with robots and nanobots all over the place. What exactly will we humans be good for? Do you have a PHD from MIT? If not you won't be very useful at all once robots learn to repair, upgrade and program themselves.
People don't exist to serve systems, systems exist to serve people.
it seems socialism could help out here...
but yeah, good points. we should ax nasa and give the money to humanitarian aid or something, and they can develop technology to aid that, so you sustain the original (practical) intention of the program.