The engineers behind the project hope the robots will eventually be used to construct colossal solar panels for satellites that will transmit solar energy back to Earth. The satellites could reflect and concentrate the Sun's rays to a receiving station on Earth or perhaps beam energy down in the form of microwaves.
(Via KurzweilAI.net.)
Friday, December 16, 2005
Space 'spiders' could build solar satellites
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