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When you poke at “automated” maintenance you realize that it’s mostly about designing for higher resolution asynchronous replacement rather than repair, often with diagnostics on subassemblies/components. This is cheating. Makes economic sense but finesses the AI challenge.
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I think the DARPA grand challenge on search and rescue robotics (how did that go btw? anyone track that?) is a step in the right direction. Addresses the analysis half of repair by navigating brokenness and messiness.
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Also interesting to reflect on Asimov’s justification for humanoid robotics: that androids would make great space explorers because they’d have to modify alien environments in human friendly ways. Some version of that might be true.
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