>>13543907>True, bot maintenance will have to be done by humans.i dont even mean that you could maintain bots with other bots. there's a lot of shit that could conceivably be remotely done on earth that we dont do because being there in person gives you much more flexibility and efficiency. even the most remotely doable stuff like office jobs which you'd expect to be all remote a century ago since we got phones is still done in person.
in technical jobs nearly anything you'll try to do you'll quickly run into something your telepresence bot either cant do or does much much slower. i think it will be like automation on earth at first for any particular type of construction we'll use people to build it, then we'll gradually switch to telepresence bots with specialized tools using the experience we learned from human construction and then we'll use the telepresence construction to teach robots how to do the whole thing with maybe a human supervising and checking the build quality. there will always be a need for humans in orbit for doing new never tried before stuff.
>>13543907>But I don't think we'll be seeing humans doing space walk for much longer, it's far simpler to have a remotely controlled bot do work in vacuum, not a human in space suit more complex than the bot itself.we wont see spacewalks with the types of suits we've seen until now. we might see something like a 'space suit' permanently attached to a robotic arm of a space station and connected to it via an 'umbilical' corridor kind of like the shit they use in some clean rooms and bio labs.also i think a lot of the work will move into big interior pressurized volumes where you can just walk around with no suit and no fear of losing parts and tools.
pic related, axiom commercial station whose first module they're launching soon and will apparently have manufacturing facilities inside. maybe orbital cubesat\experiment assembly they can shoot out of their airlock.
