#SpaceMining #robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3zRvl2LYJ4

2021 #Hyundai bought 80% of #BostonDynamics* and revealed a #robotic vehicle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs3srQuTs6Q

* https://bostondynamics.com/news/hyundai-motor-group-completes-acquisition-of-boston-dynamics-from-softbank

This #robotic system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOq20bisc0g holds the potential to dig up to 10,000 kg in a single lunar day. This is a huge increase from previous missions that only collected tens of kilograms https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/nasas-powerful-moon-mining-robot-could-dig-10000-kg-of-soil-in-a-single-lunar-day

#NASA robots Apr 29, 2025 :

• A modular system of small #robots and smart algorithms that can #autonomously assemble large-scale structures in #space
• A team of small lunar rovers designed to operate #independently, navigating and making decisions together
• A robotic arm system built for #lunar #construction tasks
• A lunar #bulldozer-dump #truck hybrid designed to mine and transport regolith
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/robots-rovers-and-regolith-nasa-brings-exploration-to-first-robotics-2025

The #Mars Exploration Rover #Spirit and #InSight lander both experienced challenges related to understanding the geotechnical properties of regolith. The advancements in legged #robotic platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBTyelFFE1A hold potential to address these challenges through greater sensitivity to changing surface properties https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20230000243

When will #SpaceRobot be able to withstand the harsh conditions of #Mars to build #infrastructure for further #exploration ?

A one-way journey typically takes about six to nine months. #Optimus is intended to perform basic tasks like equipment setup, maintenance, and data collection on #Mars https://thedroidguy.com/spacexs-bold-plan-starship-and-teslas-optimus-robot-headed-to-mars-by-2026-1268548

#Optimus humanoid robots have electric motors in their arms that operate in a confined space and require the special magnets . #RareEarth magnets are up to 15 times as powerful as conventional iron magnets of the same size https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/business/elon-musk-tesla-robots.html

For Starship to go to #Mars , you’ve got to get #Starship tankers on orbit and perfect orbital refueling. #SpaceX will have to perfect the #robots that will help build spacecraft #LandingPads and human #habitats on the Martian surface, prospect for water underground, and convert the water and carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere into vast reservoirs of super-cooled oxygen and methane for the Starships’ return voyage to Earth. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenplatt/2025/03/11/spacexs-starship-plan-to-land-first-humans-on-mars-but-not-till-2031

We need #spacecraft that can approach ageing #satellites and dock with them, using #robots to repair , refuel and upgrade them. We’ll also need a way to reuse and recycle satellites when their working lives are over. Different types of trash require different removal techniques, with many ideas coming from the #fishing industry https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-space-junk-crisis-needs-a-recycling-revolution/

#ChangE8 2028 : “Through data sharing and task delegation, the #robots will work together like a team, achieving objectives that would be impossible for independent robots to complete” https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3296324/change-8-moon-mission-first-get-robotic-boost-chinas-private-sector

Some useful payload for greenhouses on #Mars ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVcQp-WQbF0

"No #astronauts have ever viewed Earth from the vantage point of a polar orbit. Such orbits are favored by commercial photo-reconnaissance satellites because they fly over the entire planet as it rotates beneath them." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-to-launch-bitcoin-entrepreneur-and-three-crewmates-on-flight-around-earths-poles/

Maybe they see more than the #HiRes cams with their

#China has made it a goal to have mass production of humanoid #robots by 2025 and wants global leadership in the sector by 2027.
#Leju Robot presented its #Kuavo , which runs on an operating system derived from #Huawei’s #OpenHarmony, the #OpenSource version of #HarmonyOS https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3269500/chinas-laws-robotics-shanghai-publishes-first-humanoid-robot-guidelines

“#Astronauts need far more maintenance than #robots , simply because their journeys and surface operations require air, water, food, living space, and protection against harmful radiation ”. Merely going back to the #moon will simply look routine, despite the $90bn cost of the #Artemis programme. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/20/from-apollo-to-artemis-50-years-on-is-it-time-to-go-back-to-the-moon

Poll of the American #Astronomical Society : 36 percent said a manned #Moon mission had “great scientific value,” and 35 percent said it had “little scientific value.” And unmanned, #robotic missions to the Moon? Sixty-six percent of space #scientists said they would have “great scientific value.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-you-didnt-know-about-apollo-11-mission-fifty-years-ago-180972165/

"Human beings don't serve any useful function in space . They radiate heat, they're very expensive to keep alive and unlike robotic missions, they have a natural desire to come back, so that anything involving human beings is enormously expensive." https://www.space.com/4357-nobel-laureate-disses-nasa-manned-spaceflight.html

“I see on the part of the president and the administrators of #NASA… an infantile fixation on putting people into space, which has little or no #scientific value.” https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1037/1

Objectives of ten or 20 years from now, like building #lunar settlements, exploring mineral deposits on the #Moon and efficiently repairing #SpaceStation modules can only be achieved using #robotics. Due to possible disruptions in normal operations, like a small #meteor shower damaging the #robot, or hacking carried by a hostile group or state, humans must be ready to step in.
Modern #spacesuits will be a key foundation of this collaborative relationship. https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/the-upgrades-to-spacesuits-that-need-to-be-made-sooner-rather-than-later/