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NASA’s Sci-Fi Vision: Robots Could Help Humanity Mine Asteroids

14 Jun , 2013 by Elizabeth Howell

In a few generations of robotics, we’ll see mighty machines able to fully construct themselves and operate from the surface of asteroids — providing applications for mining, NASA researchers say in a new study. The scientists are convinced that this type of research is not only possible, but also able to support itself financially. (Costs […]

arkyd telescope, asteroid mining, deep space industries, Planetary Resources, robotic asteroid prospector

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