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Robot armies 'will explore alien worlds'

By T.K. Randall
October 28, 2009 · Comment icon 6 comments

Image Credit: NASA/JPL
Scientists have said that in the future an army of robotic airships and satellites will visit distant worlds and command armies of rovers and robot boats allowing us to expore a plethora of far off planets and moons.
Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of the distant world, commanding squadrons of wheeled rovers and floating robot boats, according to Wolfgang Fink of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).


Source: Telegraph | Comments (6)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by thefinalfrontier 15 years ago
Heck they are already doing this, Mars has the robots already there and Venus had robotic missions (The Veneras from Russia), Mercury has had satelites buzzing it for a long time too, Saturns moon Titan has had a robotic probe landed on its surface so I dont see a whole lot of change from what they are doing right now exept the robots and satelites most likely will get better than they are now, In fact Mars is going to have another robot sent to it called the Mars science labratory, I can see getting much better data by robots in the future simply because they will be more sophisticated,
Comment icon #2 Posted by magickaldan 15 years ago
What we need is robots that seek out raw material to build other robots. Either that or someone needs to figure out teleportation.
Comment icon #3 Posted by Kensei 15 years ago
"One day an entire fleet of robots will be autonomously commanded at once. This armada of robots will be our eyes, ears, arms and legs in space, in the air, and on the ground, capable of responding to their environment without us, to explore and embrace the unknown." This is what the Creators said the day they made Man. We are the ultimate Von Neumann probe, the robot that will be made when robots are perfected. Send humans, not toy robots.
Comment icon #4 Posted by jbondo 15 years ago
Scientists have said that in the future an army of robotic airships and satellites will visit distant worlds and command armies of rovers and robot boats allowing us to explore a plethora of far off planets and moons. Then when they have developed enough self aware intelligence they will come back to Earth and kick our a$$es. Wow! That gives me an idea for a movie about intelligent robots that come to Earth and wreak havoc while chasing Megan Fox.
Comment icon #5 Posted by behaviour??? 15 years ago
Another real life star wars Thanks B???
Comment icon #6 Posted by brlesq1 15 years ago
Thought robots were out there already. Or are they talking about sending Robbie?


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