[ExI] Meat v. Machine

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Thu Jan 6 10:03:05 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:18:40PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:
> On 1/5/2011 5:57 PM, Jeff Davis wrote:
>
>> If you could sign up to tele-operate a lunar robot, how much would you
>> pay for the chance to go on that "ride"?
>
> How much would you pay (or how much time expend) to hack into the things  
> and crash them into each other. Dodgem Cars! See them flying apart in  
> slow motion!

There's no need to run these on public networks. And of course you
would staff the control centers with trained professionals (some
recruited from the gamer circles, just as today's drone pilots).

It would be perfectly feasible to make a lunar game world in
SecondLife, OpenSim or OpenCroquet, with the 2.5 s relativistic
latency added via FIFO buffers.

I presume the robots will be pretty small, something which
would fit into a shoebox or maybe as big as a small golf 
cart. Wheeled chassis would be quite appropriate for many
locations. For other places one could use something like
a Big Dog (needs lots more power, and the many joints would
be a problem).

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