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http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/default.asp

Technology of the robonaut will be essential to the success of an asteroid mining mission. Maintenance would be next to impossible without its assistance.

>>4061747

ROVs, my friend. They are crude right now. What I'd really like to see is something like NASA's "Robonaut 2" but capable of walking/swimming on the bottom of the deepest trenches.

Connect it to a control station on the surface via fiber optic cable, where a guy in a haptic control exoskeleton has all of his motions relayed down the robot, and he wears a VR headset with head tracking so he sees what the robot sees in 3d with full freedom to look around, reach out, pick things up, use tools and so on.

Until nanocarbon tech is good enough to build a 1atm exoskeleton for humans that will survive at those depths, this is as close to an unencumbered human presence in the deep trenches as we can aspire to.

You niggers be derailing my thread.

Robonaut seen here running tests for possible Mars missions.

he doesn't afraid of anything.