In 2025, NASA is planning to fly a robot to a distant asteroid, grab ahold of a big chunk, and tow the piece back into an orbit around the moon, where it could be picked up.
Therefore a robot flying a sixer over to some thirsty pescatarians is right out.
If you've ever flown in a commercial airliner, then you've probably been flown by a robot pilot, carrying you hundreds of miles while you sat in the back drinking warm plane beer and trying to figure out if the casserole in front of you is imitation chicken or imitation vegetable.
If you've ever flown in a commercial air-liner then you've probably been flown by a robot pilot, carrying you hundreds of miles while you sat in the back drinking shit, warm plane beer and trying to work out if the casserole in front of you is imitation chicken or imitation vegetable.
Why can't we see Sgt. Bash fly above a robot's head and destroy it silently, US drone-style, or Sir Killalot hurt a robot's feeling by saying its paint job looks sloppy?
Why can't we see Sgt. Bash fly above a robot's head and destroy it silently, US drone-style, or Sir Killalot hurt a robot's feeling by saying its paintjob looks sloppy?
In my humble opinion, controlling a flying humanoid robot leads to a number of theoretical and practical questions.
There are small robots and big ones; flying robots and swarming robots; even whiskery robots.
How can a flying robot solve an evolutionary mystery?
Though Edwards-Daugherty confesses that he "went into the project pretty cocksure," he also notes that the fund-raising effort represented a "a test of the market… do people really want a flying, autonomous robot?" Apparently, we do.
