No matter what images we have from the Borg on Star Trek or the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica, NASA says the future of space exploration is all about human and robotic cooperation.

“In space it will be robots and humans, not robots versus humans”, said Rob Ambrose, chief of the Software, Robotics and Simulation Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. “We have a vision for Mars that definitely includes robots. Apollo did not have the technology to pre-deploy food and supplies for the moon. Everything they took had to fit into that lunar module. If they could have pre-deployed, they might have stayed more than two days.”

Ambrose was the opening speaker at today’s RoboticBusiness conference in Boston.

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