Rapid advances in creating “swarms” of interlinked AI-enhanced robots, and in global “cloud robotics” networks that allow them to learn from each other, are remaking the realm of space robotics and its future, Hodges tells me in a series of interviews. This multi-faceted revolution is paving the way for robots to build out the first human base camps in advance of the new-generation astronauts touching down.A simultaneous revolution in spaceflight is super-charging this new-millennium race to the Moon. Despite the fantastic pyrotechnical explosions that have lit up SpaceX’s first three test flights of its experimental Titan-size booster and capsule, the twin-stage “Starship is a technological marvel,” Professor Hodges says. Read more...
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