Robotic Moon

After the anger died down, I started to think again after reading this:
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.

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  1. Two categories:

    US, 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.

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