Robotics
#SpaceMining ⚒️ #robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zRvl2LYJ4
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NASA's Space-Digging RASSOR Robot
The increasing demand for on-orbit servicing (#OOS) ♻️ tasks, such as #satellite repair, #SpaceDebris removal, refueling, and upgrades, has driven the need for advanced #robotic 🤖 systems capable of autonomous and precise operations in #space 🌌. #Germany’s 🇩🇪 #DEOS focuses on rendezvous, capture, and de-orbiting of an uncontrollable satellite from its operational orbit. #ESA's 🇪🇺 #SpaceServicing vehicle is anticipated to launch by 📆 2028 https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/space.0291
Kris Zacny has produced an array of groundbreaking studies and books 📕 on deploying #robots to extraterrestrial outposts to build the foundation for later #astronaut missions. His team at #HoneybeeRobotics Exploration Systems has already designed #robotic instruments that have sped across the solar system, including on the #Mars #Phoenix lander, the Mars Exploration Rovers #Spirit and #Opportunity, and the #Perseverance rover https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2025/01/26/space-robotics-leader-says-humans-will-soon-join-robots-on-moon-mars
#Harvard SEAS roboticists develop #autonomous #robots 🤖 to follow human guidance without needing to know about the details of the task or goal, simply by sensing force applied to an object. Much more capable soft #robot arms can navigate the obstacle-rich environments of #DeepSpace habitats https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2024/01/robots-help-human-habitation-space
Current #automation trends indicate that "office #support, customer #service, and food service employment could continue to decline" 📉. Mass #unemployment breeds social instability. Rather than creating dependency, guaranteed income appears to unleash #entrepreneurial energy by providing the security necessary for #risk-taking. #Trust in institutions also strengthened https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/04/universal-basic-income-a-business-case-for-the-ai-era/
Adding one 1️⃣ #robot to an area reduces #employment in that area by about six 6️⃣ workers. #Automation technologies generally don't bring shared #prosperity by themselves https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/a-new-study-measures-actual-impact-robots-jobs-its-significant
The goal of the #future is full #unemployment, so we can #play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
Arthur C. Clarke, 📆 1969 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robot
The first time a commercial #robotic spacecraft captures a government #satellite 🛰️ that is uncrewed and was not originally designed to be serviced 🔧 in space.
#Swift has gradually been losing altitude ⤵️ due to atmospheric drag. On top of that, recent increases in the Sun’s ☀️ activity has caused Earth’s #atmosphere to swell, intensifying drag and speeding up the process https://www.astronomy.com/science/swift-observatory-rescue-mission
The #robot picks up raw materials, binds them with a proprietary extrusion system and dispenses them layer by layer like a #3Dprinter 🛖 https://www.heise.de/en/news/Building-robot-Charlotte-spider-machine-to-print-houses-and-moon-bases-10712099.html
