possibly...
go wrong?
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 ...
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.
possibly...
go wrong?
Yeah, but while they use robots to build their moon base, we will print ours ...
Their robots will be printing their moon base.
“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?
We will, once we get the correct number of black, hispanic, female and LGBT+ engineers involved in the project.
Priorities, you know.
“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.
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 ?
That 2.5 seconds can ruin your whole day—especially if you are a robot or a computer. ;-)
https://www.aulis.com/pascal.htm
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.
Rots a ruck with that!
Slow build as you go.
Don’t use ‘Doze OS’es. The moon would be a terrible place to be blue screened.
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
What you really need is a backhoe that can build another backhoe.
I love that video! It really shows chemistry and physics in action.
Just slow the human down with pot, problem solved.
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