How Robots Will Help Humans Conquer The Moon

When humans will return to the Moon they will need a lot of assistance to set up a settlement and carry out all the missions. They will need a lot of robots to do that. How exactly will it pan out? Figuring out with Professor Yang Gao from King's College London.

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00:00 Intro
02:48 Future Moon equipment
13:57 Autonomous robots
23:46 Machine learning revolution
32:25 Self-replication
38:09 Current obsessions
46:13 Final thoughts and more interviews

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[yanis]

This is one of my favorite topics in the new space era and I was very excited to listen to this interview. Now I know that anesthesia can also be delivered through human speech.

[paulmichaelfreedman]

On the moon it's handy to have a robot to walk the dog. But Seriously, the biggest problem is going to be regolith grinding down the gears in its joints. That stuff is the definition of abrasive.

[rockinray]

Your questions were way more fascinating than her vague answers.

[bootsyew]

You really tried, Fraser. I could almost feel your pain as you continued to try to get her to make an actual detail-specific response in the most polite ways possible. She is definitely a master of meaningless answers.

[lukeskywalker]

Great work, I wouldn't be able to have put together an interview like you do. You're able to deviated the conversation into futuristic topics and keep the scientist comfortable with the conversation. Keep up the good work

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[philochristos]

Robots + AI. Eventually, we'll be able to send a whole fleet of robots wherever we want, and in time, they'll be able to build everything we need to humans to show up and live, do research, etc.

[chris-terrell-liveactive]

Very interesting interview and future vision. Thank you.

[paulkaiser]

English isn’t her native language so a lot of forgiveness is allocated. However, inflection is cross cultural an no excuse for being boring. Can you imagine having her as a professor? Such a fun topic. Please take another stab at it when you can. I’m sure there are a boat load of other enthusiastic experts out there!

[sunnysidefriendakdk]

Such great conversations on this channel

[prostytroll]

"Conquer" - why it has to be always militaristic jargon?

[matthewring]

Right know we are on the verge of an industrial revolution in space. Hopefully that process doesn’t take too long so we can move on to the next phase.

[stevenboelke]

"Water ice for beathing" sounds so absurd outside of this context.

[ReggieArford]

We already have a robot that washes dishes.
It's called a dishwasher.

[simpledragon]

What an awesome idea!
Robots add a dimension of possibilities.
As long as we never set into motion self replicating machines that create a collective consciousness with survival instincts.

[robbumusic]

The concept of connectedness/awareness within the spacesuit via feedback systems of autonomous or even manned equipment eg. construction or mining equipment operating nearby to a lunar astronaut is an important point - on Earth we are aware of machines around us by their sound when out of sight (& with limited peripheral vision in a helmet); there will be no situational awareness noise on the moon when operating outside of habitats, making the risk of accidents that much greater than on Earth.

[patrickunderwood]

Suggest people watch side-by-side some videos of the Apollo lunar EVAs vs. ISS EVAs. It quickly becomes obvious that astronauts working in the 1/6g of the Moon are VASTLY more effective, more effective, and more comfortable than astronauts working in microgravity. For the simple reason that humans evolved in a gravity field over millions of years, with zero experience in microgravity. This is an important factor that is commonly overlooked.