TOKYO -- Japan wants to help build a lunar base and populate it with advanced versions of today's humanoid robots by around 2025, according to the head of the nation's space agency.
First there is no way that a lunar base would be able to completely indepently operated by humanoid robots. I think our AI and robotics technology is still just a few years off from pulling off that gargantuan miracle. Until you see Toyota producing a completely robotically manufactured car a robot lunar base is that much farther off. Even then they'll need human programmers and people that can actually improvise beyond programming.
Where does the anger come from? Because I started to actually think it was possible. Imagine that: a Lunar base filled with robotic colonists. I don't want to send robots to colonize, I want to send my own derierre... Johnny-5 can wait his turn.
Two categories:
ReplyDeleteUS, China, India: Demographic motive to expand, plus launch ability.
France, Japan: Ability coupled with demographic shrinkage that leaves them with no ability or use for a frontier.
So the robots are Japan's only hope for a populace eager to explore.