I believe success in Space starts with success on Earth. We have been developing Lunar and Mars rovers for remote exploration. I am curious about how much have we progressed on autonomous Earth explorer robots. Mining exploration and environmental research requires machinery to sample the environment. Most of these locations are remote and we would like to cover as much area as possible. It can be achieved by Autonomous Cooperating Explorer robots (ACE). We should be developing the ACE platform such that robots from different manufacturers can cooperate together autonomously. These robots should be modular and these modules can be interchanged by the robot itself. Example depending on the work the robot will mount its legs or wheels.
When ACE robots deployed for exploration they will first establish a base where spare parts are stored, wireless relay station is mounted and batteries recharged. The batteries would be recharged using renewable energy sources such as wind turbines and solar panels. Therefore ACE colony will be self sufficient. It will also erect RF transceivers for local positioning system. They will do most of the sample analysis on the field as well.
ACE platform will cover land, underwater and extraterrestrial robots for exploration. They can be utilized for permanent mining operations with their construction capabilities. In that case they would construct the road, establish electric and data connection to the mine first, then start mining the field.
Please Think BIG and develop platforms that would benefit both Earth and Space. Mature the technology on Earth and send the offspring to the Space.
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