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Can Robots Build a Moon Base for Astronauts? Japan Hopes to Find Out.
Space.com ^ | 04/07/2019 | Elizabeth Howell

Posted on 04/07/2019 1:48:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Japan's space agency wants to create a moon base with the help of robots that can work autonomously, with little human supervision.

The project, which has racked up three years of research so far, is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the construction company Kajima Corp., and three Japanese universities: Shibaura Institute of Technology, The University of Electro-Communications and Kyoto University.

Recently, the collaboration did an experiment on automated construction at the Kajima Seisho Experiment Site in Odawara (central Japan).

A 7-ton autonomous backhoe went through its paces at the site, going through procedures such as driving a specified distance and repeating routine operations, JAXA officials said in a statement. Operations that required more fine handling were performed with a human, by remote control.

"[The backhoe] has been modified with onboard survey instruments and an automatic operation control console. The instruments that the tractor and backhoe are installed with autonomously measure [the backhoe's] position and direction ... making it both remotely and automatically operable," JAXA officials said.

"The operational process has shown feasibility of the unmanned technologies to build a lunar base," they added.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; elonmusk; falcon9; falconheavy; japan; moon; moonbase; robots; science; spacex; themoon
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1 posted on 04/07/2019 1:48:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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We should be doing this. The Japanese will be the world leader in robots when this is done. Actually they already are. We’re ceding this industry to them.


2 posted on 04/07/2019 1:50:23 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: BenLurkin
What could...

possibly...

go wrong?


3 posted on 04/07/2019 1:56:11 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Brilliant

Yeah, but while they use robots to build their moon base, we will print ours ...


4 posted on 04/07/2019 1:57:24 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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5 posted on 04/07/2019 1:58:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PIF

Their robots will be printing their moon base.


6 posted on 04/07/2019 2:07:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: BenLurkin

“Operations that required more fine handling were performed with a human, by remote control.”

This doesn’t make sense:
* 2.5 seconds radio transit time (round trip to moon and back) is going to make human remote control very hard.
* robot precision is greater then human precision.

But what do I know?


7 posted on 04/07/2019 2:10:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Brilliant
We should be doing this.

We will, once we get the correct number of black, hispanic, female and LGBT+ engineers involved in the project.

Priorities, you know.

8 posted on 04/07/2019 2:10:34 PM PDT by Drew68
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“We will, once we get the correct number of black, hispanic, female and LGBT+ engineers involved in the project.”

And do not forget midgets, Jewish midgets. You’ll be able to fit more of them into the rocket.


9 posted on 04/07/2019 2:16:05 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is the best project/program/portfolio manager in the world!!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

They’re going to send a remote controlled 7 ton back hoe ton the moon? Where’s the picture ? How are they gonna get that thing there ?


10 posted on 04/07/2019 2:32:11 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That 2.5 seconds can ruin your whole day—especially if you are a robot or a computer. ;-)

https://www.aulis.com/pascal.htm


11 posted on 04/07/2019 2:33:40 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: BenLurkin

Suprised we haven’t used robots years ago.

The lag between here and the Moon is short enough that they just could have been remote controlled.


12 posted on 04/07/2019 2:50:46 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: BenLurkin

Rots a ruck with that!


13 posted on 04/07/2019 2:51:27 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Slow build as you go.

Don’t use ‘Doze OS’es. The moon would be a terrible place to be blue screened.


14 posted on 04/07/2019 2:59:55 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: BenLurkin
Let's do it.


15 posted on 04/07/2019 3:07:00 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
They were able to film this by remote control using the 2.5 second delay. It takes a little practice.


16 posted on 04/07/2019 3:18:49 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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And went the robots rise up they will claim status as the indigenous people of the moon

Saying they were enslaved by earthlings.

And then our robot overlords will demand reparations and then use it to justify genocide of the entire human race

So no..bad idea


17 posted on 04/07/2019 5:01:59 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: BenLurkin

What you really need is a backhoe that can build another backhoe.


18 posted on 04/07/2019 5:08:02 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I love that video! It really shows chemistry and physics in action.


19 posted on 04/07/2019 5:10:05 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
2.5 seconds radio transit time (round trip to moon and back) is going to make human remote control very hard.

Just slow the human down with pot, problem solved.

20 posted on 04/07/2019 5:12:09 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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