/sci/ - Science & Math

As for the production of other goods, specialized modules containing networked 3D printers and a few CNC mills, plus Motoman style assembly robots would be sufficient to automatically produce dishes, flatware, toys, tools, even additional diving helmets and simple electronics.

This casule could be fully constructed on land long before it's sealed up and sunk for mating to the rest of the colony. It would then be a matter of connecting it to the power and network to bring it online and start churning out goods.

As for where the materials would come from, luckily robots for harvesting seafloor minerals are actually much further along than most, even miles ahead of the technology necessary to automate traditional mines on land. The liquid medium actually greatly simplifies the problem, making it possible for robots to move in three dimensions while expending very little energy to do so, and to gather ore via suction, that sort of thing.