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Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of the distant world, commanding squadrons of wheeled rovers and floating robot boats, according to Wolfgang Fink of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
The systems will transform planetary exploration, says Prof Fink, who envisages the cybernetic adventurers mapping the land and seascapes of Saturn’s moon, Titan - believed to have lakes of standing liquid - as well as closer planetary neighbours like Mars.
At the moment robotic exploration relies on single robots controlled from Earth. That will change, according to Prof Fink, director of Caltech's Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory.
He says: "We are departing from traditional approaches of a single robotic spacecraft with no redundancy that is Earth-commanded to one that allows for having multiple, expendable low-cost robots that can command themselves or other robots at various locations at the same time.
The systems will transform planetary exploration, says Prof Fink, who envisages the cybernetic adventurers mapping the land and seascapes of Saturn’s moon, Titan - believed to have lakes of standing liquid - as well as closer planetary neighbours like Mars.
At the moment robotic exploration relies on single robots controlled from Earth. That will change, according to Prof Fink, director of Caltech's Visual and Autonomous Exploration Systems Research Laboratory.
He says: "We are departing from traditional approaches of a single robotic spacecraft with no redundancy that is Earth-commanded to one that allows for having multiple, expendable low-cost robots that can command themselves or other robots at various locations at the same time.
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Ah, Krikkit war robots.
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