Fred J. McCall wrote:
This looks like Program Funding Via Flash to me. Making your
teleoperated robot anthropomorphic is great for SF, but for actual
exploration it probably makes better sense to optimize form to
something 8 legged that's designed so it can always right itself, with
a couple of the legs having 'tool adapters' to use specially designed
tools housed in the body.

Legs are complex and use a lot of energy; go with wheels or treads:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/WED_T...l_repair_droid

Of course, if people aren't going, why bother with the teleoperated
robots? And what next, selling time to let 'everyman' operate one for
a while?

I get to strangle a selenite with it! I get to strangle a selenite with it!

This isn't science. It's theater.

It's mystery science theater.
The mystery being if it will get funded.


Pat