If An Autonomous Robot Can Repair Itself

A Useful Autonomous Robot.

If robots are to be used for space exploration or god help us, military purposes they are going to have to durable, reliable and able to take a hit and get back up. Today’s robots are not this way as you can imagine. In fact there are very few prototype robots that can even move under their own power let alone able to fix themselves after being damaged.

DARPA which is the not so secret, secret research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, has developed several different models of self powered, ambulating robots.

For the not to distant mission to Mars, such robots would come in very handy to say the least. In fact maybe we are better off not sending any people at all? NASA engineers have developed their own space robot named Valkyrie.

 Valkyrie as a robotic helper to human astronauts.

Valkyrie as a autonomous robot helper to human astronauts.

Now if these robots could self repair themselves possibly tax payers would be more eager to put up the enormous sums of money needed for such a venture. If a million dollar robot suddenly breaks a leg on Mars, there may not be a robot engineer around to help. NASA very maco looking robot which has been under development for over a decade is looking more and more space ready don’t you think?



Unconventional autonomous robots.


Biological models for new robots





CREDIT Ishiguro-Kano Laboratory

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