The Evolution of Technology: Robots! Debate

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July 1, 2016, 9:37 am

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The Evolution of Technology: Robots!

Personally I'm really passionate about technology,and I like to keep myself updated in everything that is related to technology. Day by day technology is evolving and becoming more advanced and making our life easier. We all know that without technology we wouldn’t be here where we are today…I was reading an article about robots, that they can teach each other. Yeah, it sounds cool and this is another big step from technology, but how do they teach each other? Since everything is programmed by humans.

What do you think about those robots?

Let’s discuss…

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TommyCarey

Robots are pretty amazing

Whenever someone talks about the advancement of technology and is referring to robots, I always think about asteroid mining

The problem with this is not getting the robots to the asteroids, but getting the material back without turning the asteroid into something that could wipe out the planet or just crash in the ocean lol.

There are something like 150 asteroids at least 150 feet in diameter and most of them contain tons of precious metals. Each asteroid could yield more than 6 billion in profit to anyone who can figure out how to get robots to the asteroids, mine the asteroids, refine the metals and bring them back home.

There was a theory written up by a physicist and he talked about how mining in space could be possible, we just don't have the technology yet. The technology we don't have yet is the AI for the robots in order to work without command.

Here is basically what he talked about:

Building robots on earth: We would build the first group of robots on earth and make them the Manager type robots in order to set forth rules. These robots would be doing basically what we'd be doing if we were managing and coding things in space in order to keep the pace of workflow going. We would also need a team of worker robots in order to do the mining. These would only do mining and depositing the ore into a place where the ore was collected. We would also need to have a smelter in space to refine the ore so we could send it home in it's purest form and reduce the cost of transport. We'll also need specialty robots like trash collectors, repair man robots, technician robots, etc. Basically we'd automate a factory, but in space.
Sending the robots to space: This is one of the easiest parts for us since we've already done loads of manned missions and unmanned missions to space. I'm not going to talk about this much because all we'd do is load up the robots and shoot them in the sky
Getting to the asteroids: Some asteroids can be caught up to by just using thrusters and then anchoring to them. If an asteroid was going too fast, we'd have to try and slingshot to the asteroid using a planets mass and gravitational pull.

So after we build the robots, send them to space and get to the asteroid we just have to mine them. That's an easy part as well since we have the technology to build extremely strong drills to get the ore out.

Let's fast forward a bit and talk about what happens when we deplete the first 150 asteroids around earth, what do we do? This is where the real fun begins

By this time we will hopefully have the technology to have robots build the robots in space. They would need to use the precious metals that were mined from the asteroids to build the robots. So now we have our first crew of robots and a new crew where their only job is to build robots.

So what do we do with the robots who are building robots in space? After enough robots are built, we will then slingshot multiple teams in different directions and have them seek out asteroids that are now near us. Now we have teams going out to mine asteroids and sent back refined precious metals. Each team has a manager, miners, technicians, builders, etc. and can work on their own. Think of it as a virus, it will continually grow due to the builders making new robots whenever they come across precious metals. We don't really know how much is out there. This could just turn into the borg

"The first person to figure out how to mine asteroids will instantly become a trillionaire" - Neil deGrasse Tyson Robots are pretty amazing :D Whenever someone talks about the advancement of technology and is referring to robots, I always think about asteroid mining :D The problem with this is not getting the robots to the asteroids, but getting the material back without turning the asteroid into something that could wipe out the planet or just crash in the ocean lol. There are something like 150 asteroids at least 150 feet in diameter and most of them contain tons of precious metals. Each asteroid could yield more than 6 billion in profit to anyone who can figure out how to get robots to the asteroids, mine the asteroids, refine the metals and bring them back home. There was a theory written up by a physicist and he talked about how mining in space could be possible, we just don't have the technology yet. The technology we don't have yet is the AI for the robots in order to work without command. Here is basically what he talked about: [list][*][u][b]Building robots on earth:[/b][/u] We would build the first group of robots on earth and make them the Manager type robots in order to set forth rules. These robots would be doing basically what we'd be doing if we were managing and coding things in space in order to keep the pace of workflow going. We would also need a team of worker robots in order to do the mining. These would only do mining and depositing the ore into a place where the ore was collected. We would also need to have a smelter in space to refine the ore so we could send it home in it's purest form and reduce the cost of transport. We'll also need specialty robots like trash collectors, repair man robots, technician robots, etc. Basically we'd automate a factory, but in space.[/*][*][u][b]Sending the robots to space:[/b][/u] This is one of the easiest parts for us since we've already done loads of manned missions and unmanned missions to space. I'm not going to talk about this much because all we'd do is load up the robots and shoot them in the sky :D[/*][*][u][b]Getting to the asteroids:[/b][/u] Some asteroids can be caught up to by just using thrusters and then anchoring to them. If an asteroid was going too fast, we'd have to try and slingshot to the asteroid using a planets mass and gravitational pull.[/*][/list] So after we build the robots, send them to space and get to the asteroid we just have to mine them. That's an easy part as well since we have the technology to build extremely strong drills to get the ore out. Let's fast forward a bit and talk about what happens when we deplete the first 150 asteroids around earth, what do we do? This is where the real fun begins :D By this time we will hopefully have the technology to have robots build the robots in space. They would need to use the precious metals that were mined from the asteroids to build the robots. So now we have our first crew of robots and a new crew where their only job is to build robots. So what do we do with the robots who are building robots in space? After enough robots are built, we will then slingshot multiple teams in different directions and have them seek out asteroids that are now near us. Now we have teams going out to mine asteroids and sent back refined precious metals. Each team has a manager, miners, technicians, builders, etc. and can work on their own. Think of it as a virus, it will continually grow due to the builders making new robots whenever they come across precious metals. We don't really know how much is out there. This could just turn into the borg :D "The first person to figure out how to mine asteroids will instantly become a trillionaire" - Neil deGrasse Tyson

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