NORMALIZING ROBOTICS: #BESTOF2022: #HotelMars: Robots and the future of space exploration. Frances Zhu, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, the SpaceShow.com
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🗓️ 5 October 2023
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NORMALIZING ROBOTICS: #BESTOF2022: #HotelMars: Robots and the future of space exploration. Frances Zhu, University of Hawaii. David Livingston, the SpaceShow.com
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| 0:00.0 | The best stories are the ones that are constantly reinvented. |
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| 0:28.3 | real well driving results may vary. |
| 0:58.3 | We need some definitions first because in my reporting of the successes of NASA and other |
| 1:08.6 | big space operations like the European Space Agency, I refer to the probes that are now |
| 1:16.2 | famous. |
| 1:17.2 | That would be, for example, the James Webb Space Telescope. |
| 1:21.1 | I refer to them as a robot. |
| 1:23.4 | I also think of the satellites in lower orbit as robots. |
| 1:27.6 | Is that a definition that suits your work and robotics space exploration? |
| 1:31.9 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:33.9 | Good evening. |
| 1:34.9 | Hi, John. |
| 1:35.9 | Thank you so much for having me and good to see you, David. |
| 1:38.2 | I would agree with your definition. |
| 1:39.8 | I think a robot is a mixture of software, of electronics, and of some physical form. |
| 1:46.3 | Now that may differ from the general perception of some humanoid, which is popularized in |
| 1:51.4 | science fiction, but I think we can think about robots as any kind of machine, whatever |
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