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Even if one of a kind HSF stunts like Apollo 17 may have been more productive than an unmanned lunar rover/sample return for similar amount of money, generally, cost effective missions are robotic and teleoperated which is actually human as well by definition!

Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009

Dobell's bots are teleoperated, meaning there's a human with a joystick driving them around.

Wired Top Stories 2009

Why aren't we talking about major encampments of teleoperated robots?

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

If you can just build both kinds of robots on the moon the teleoperated industrial base can grow without any concievable issues that would require manned presence, at first.

Back to the Moon We Go - NASA Watch 2009

"Why aren't we talking about major encampments of teleoperated robots?"

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

The authors haven't described ANYTHING that couldn't be done more cheaply with robotics, or teleoperated systems.

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

Because of the real-time teleoperated robotics, it would be immediately useful - not just a boring roadblock in the way to people on Mars.

Back to the Moon We Go - NASA Watch 2009

As an example, we could have a large presence on the Moon with robots and teleoperated machines within the next ten years; these robots would emplace the infrastructure needed for a lunar outpost.

Good Morning Houston - NASA Watch 2009

Lots of maintenance robots with human-like dexterity (like the ones used to do teleoperated surgeries).

Back to the Moon We Go - NASA Watch 2009

Good enough for largely teleoperated, man-tended industrial base.

"Moon = Stupid": Its The Same Tired Rhetoric From Bob Zubrin - NASA Watch 2009