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Re:Humans Will Never Colonize Mars by disgruntled101 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:06AM (#26842232)
What if we build robots that are remote controlled by humans using tactile feedback? We could have a chassis that can work on mars while being controlled from Earth. Maybe that's one of the idea Elon has with Neuralink. A huge obstacle would be latency I guess
Re:Humans Will Never Colonize Mars by elihu on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:47AM (#26842402)
Message delay makes this not feasible from Earth, but it may be a pretty good solution for people living on Mars who need to do some outdoor work (construction, mining, etc..) but don't want to deal with space suits and radiation. Sending a robot in their place sounds pretty good.

On the other hand, if AI technology is good enough, you might not need the human operator except for certain complex tasks. Most of the time you might be able to get away with high-level tasks like "dig a hole here" or "load this equipment onto this rover".

Re:Humans Will Never Colonize Mars by erik_seaberg on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:59AM (#26842459)
If the tasks look like “we’d like someone to eventually dig out a 3x3 room for an iron smelter across from the mechanic’s workshop,” that’s just Dwarf Fortress minus the booze.
Re:Humans Will Never Colonize Mars by veliko on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:16AM (#26842273)
Why do you need that? Just send a datacenter with a nuclear power reactor to power it and then improve on the AI of the robots
Re:Humans Will Never Colonize Mars by wernercd on Saturday April 17, 2021 @03:11AM (#26842252)
What kind of tactile feedback will you get with a delay of an hour (or however long it takes to communicate over a million miles)? This isn't like flying a drone a scant thousand miles away...