Thursday, October 29, 2009

All Hail the Robot Armada!

A QUANTUM OF SCIENCE

In the future, space exploration of distant worlds will be carried out not by humans, nor even by human-guided robots, but by robot-guided-robots.

Wolfgang Fink, visiting professor at California Institute of Technology, predicts a day when small, expendable robot teams would make the trek to Mars or Titan and explore independently, using generalized instructions and flexible programming to search extraterrestrial landscape in much the same way that astronauts have explored the surface of the moon.

All hall the Robot Armada!

For more information:

Robot armada might scale new worlds (R&D Magazine)

Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory

© AQOS / P. Smalley (2009)
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