07 September 2018
ANA/JAXA plan to revolutionise space with real-world Avatars
... synchronisation. And, instead of trying to placate the local inhabitants of a mineral-rich moon in order to mine their Unobtanium, “AVATAR X” say its creators, will be used for remote construction in space, including the lunar surface and Mars...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...a workable and consistent legal framework for AI use in space activities. Space activities could ultimately be carried out by avatar-robots controlled by humans on Earth or in orbit around the Moon or Mars. Some, like R5, or Valkyrie, might even look...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
...film’s prophetic messaging than the sometimes shrill preaching of some modern-day catastrophists. By the same token, Avatar (2009), which is one of the world’s highest grossing films (at around US$3 billion), depicts a very plausible scenario whereby...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
...maintenance of personal space of both humans and human-like avatars was modelled by Dr Roger Tootell at Harvard Medical School ... that discomfort-by-distance functions for both humans and avatars were closely aligned in a power relationship. This...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
.... I had lunch with director Jim Cameron who, interestingly given this was 1998 and long before Avatar, wanted to shoot a 3D film in space. We spoke to others as well. But then, just by chance, there I was giving the...
19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
...’s assistant’ when Skybot F-850 arrives at the ISS on 24 August. In its previous incarnation, Fedor went by the name of Avatar and was created initially to carry out rescue operations, but the robot was later repurposed to include...
