TOPICS OF INTEREST

1. Long duration explorer robots on Mars or the Moon
- Mechanical challenges
- Energy
- Sheltering

2. Small robotic teams capable of mutual repair
- Modular robotics
- Reconfigurable robotics
- Self-repair, recycling and self-replication

3. Robotics outposts
- Functional specialization
- Energy production
- Shelter construction (for robots)
- Utilization/production of parts

4. Planetary robotic infrastructures
- Robotic "oases"
- Robotic "highways"
- Robotic "factories"
- Scientific exploration infrastructure
- Communications/networks

5. Robotic colony autonomy
- Distributed planning and scheduling
- Mixed-initiative planning
- Distributed execution monitoring and diagnosis
- Self-organization and cooperative strategies
- Colony models from biology and ecology, swarms
- Robotic ecologies with different scales (from rovers to nanobots)

6. New mission concepts
- Bringing parts
- In situ exploration staging
- Failure resistant planetary exploration

7. Beyond Mars , Moon and Earth Orbit
- Creating other planetary outposts
- Robotic colonies for asteroid mining and small body exploration
- Packaging robotic colonies for deep space travel

8. Robot ecologies for large-scale orbital construction
- Solar power satellites
- Large aperature observatories
- Orbital colonies

9. Robotic infrastructure as a preparatory stage to human exploration
- Common needs for robotic and human survival
- Tested energy sources
- Enhanced safety

10. Earth based development and testing
- "Robosphere1": An Earth based robotic ecology environment
- "Virtual Robosphere1"
- Internet outreach

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