Private space companies also make moon landers.

    Private space companies also make moon landers. 

Private Peregrine moon lander stacked in ULA (United Launch Alliance) Vulcan rocket. And it's ready for lift-off on January 8. 

Peregrine moon-lander looks like any other moon lander. The difference is that Peregrine is a private project. That is a good example of flexible innovations. A private corporation makes the moon-lander. That can take samples from the Moon's surface. Private space corporations are rising actors in space research in technical and scientific ways. 

Private corporations offer flexible platforms that can operate with things like space stations and other similar things. Private space industries are not only communication satellites. The private space industry also wants to benefit from low- and zero-gravity conditions for laboratories. 

And remote-controlled miniature shuttles can also operate as manufacturing platforms for complicated molecules and nanomechanics. This is one of the reasons why civilians are also interested in Scramjet engines and hypersonic flight. 

The air-breathing scramjets offer the possibility to make a cheap and effective launch platform for miniature shuttles that can used as remote-controlled laboratories. When those systems finish their operations. They can return the merchandise to the ground. That is one reason why those miniature robot shuttles are under development. 

"The Peregrine prior to being loaded atop the ULA Vulcan rocket (Image credit: Astrobotic" (Space.com/Private Peregrine moon lander is stacked on ULA Vulcan rocket ahead of Jan. 8 launch)

ULA:s Vulcan-Centaur rocket. 

"Artist's illustration of ispace's Series 2 robotic lander on the surface of the moon (Image credit: ispace)" (Space.com/Japan's ispace shows off a tiny moon lander for its 2nd moon mission in 2024)

Another system that travels to the Moon is the Japanese miniature lander. The Japanese "ispace" corporation introduces its miniature moon-lander along with miniature rovers. The miniature space systems allow to creation of new models for moon and planetary missions. 

A large number of AI-controlled miniature landers and drone swarms can used as the non-centralized solution for space missions. The system can be based on miniature actors. They have different types of sensor packs. Those systems can connect their abilities in their entirety. And that thing is the base of drone swarms. 

A large number of simple and cheap systems can form a drone swarm that acts like one complicated system. The difference between those drone swarms and one complicated system is that. Destruction of one drone doesn't destroy the entire swarm. 

Another remarkable thing is that miniaturized technology makes it possible also small robots can carry multiple sensors and effective computers. That allows them to run complicated AI algorithms. That allows them to make versatile operations. 

That base is in non-centralized calculations and the ability to connect their data into one entirety. Traditional space systems are large and complicated systems. The smaller but larger group of different probes makes it possible that even if one participant's mission fails. The mission can continue. Also, a swarm of landers or drones can cover a larger area. Then one single lander. In some visions, similar helicopter technology that operates on Mars can be used with those landers. 

Those systems can equipped with Kamov-type opposite rotating rotors, and they can carry the drone that is equipped with seismic sensors and sample-taking systems. Things like miniature magnetometers and laser spectrometers make those systems flexible and versatile tools. 

https://www.space.com/peregrine-moon-lander-stacked-ula-vulcan-rocket

https://www.space.com/japan-ispace-moon-lander-2nd-mission

https://www.ulalaunch.com/rockets/vulcan-centaur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ispace_(Japanese_company)

Metamaterials: the key for making self-assembly layers and machines.

 Metamaterials: the key for making self-assembly layers and machines.

Metamaterials especially metamaterials that can return to their original shape after damage are interesting and revolutionizing tools. Most of those materials are in the polymerase chain reactions. One version. How to make this type of self-assembling material is to connect the polymer with the metal bites. In the simplest model, the self-chaining polymer makes a platform. 

The system puts the metal bites over that network. Then it melts metals over the polymer network. In some other models at the edge of the metal is the polymer. When those metal alloy plates. Or, as an example metal-silicone compounds will take close to each other. The polymers make touch with each other. In some visions, this kind of thing can made using DNA-controlled crystals. That thing can be an artificial silicone-based lifeform. 

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"A 3D-printed Möbius strip (left) and odd-numbered metaring (right). These are both non-orientable objects that will necessarily have a point along the ring that does not deform. Credit: Xiaofei Guo" (ScitechDaily.com/Unlocking the Secrets of Mechanical Memory in Metamaterials)

"A 3D-printed Möbius strip (top) and two odd-numbered metarings (middle and bottom). These are all non-orientable objects that will necessarily have a point along the ring that does not deform. Credit: Xiaofei Guo". (ScitechDaily.com/Unlocking the Secrets of Mechanical Memory in Metamaterials)

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In some models, genetically engineered silicon algae can make complete silicone structures. And then the system can melt metal alloy over that structure. The silicone algae are tiny algae with a silicone shell. 

It's possible. That genetically engineered bacteria can spin the silicone network that is like silicone canvas. That is a good platform for metal structures. 

If we have metamaterial, that can return to its original shape after damage. That kind of thing makes SciFi movies true. This kind of material is introduced in Stephen King's novel "Christie". In some visions, the holes in metamaterial can fixed by putting the plate in the hole. 

And then that material simply melts itself into the hole. In some visions, damage makes small wires or "hair" in that kind of metamaterials. Then the repairment system just puts the repairment bite at that point. And then it conducts electricity in that thing. That makes those bites melt into one piece. But if that process is possible to make without outcoming effects. That makes those metamaterials more effective. 

Self-assembling metamaterials require some kind of mechanical memory, that controls the movements of those layers. Benefiting those things requires complete knowledge of mechanical memory. When researchers find how that thing works they can make many new things. And one of them is self-repairing structures. 

Metamaterials are new things in robotics. The system allows to make the new type of complicated structures. And those kinds of things are the new types of tools in space and other places. There are needed ultimate strength and flexibility.

https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-the-secrets-of-mechanical-memory-in-metamaterials/

Can we connect ChatGPT or some other language model with Virtual reality?

  Can we connect ChatGPT or some other language model with Virtual reality?

It's possible that in the next generation virtual worlds move avatars. Which acts as a communication port for ChatGPT. In that case, the human user can use those robot avatars to ask for advice on how to operate in the virtual world. The thing in ChatGPT and its cooperation with humans in virtual worlds is that this type of solution denies that the server will get in the same time billions of similar queries that can overload certain memory addresses. 

And that thing can cause temporary system malfunction. The complicated virtual world runs on two or more servers, and if one server gets stuck the swap-server sees a rising error level. The other server continues the operation. But it removes the point, where the error level starts to rise. 

This requires that the VR and its background systems use advanced AI-based systems that keep complete databases, which the system can use to solve problems. When the system sees a problem it stores it in the error-correction server. And then AI along with human operators will start to handle that problem. 

In that case, the reason for too many queries to one database address can be the result. The system handles all queries that have the same values. The separation between "emergencies" and normal queries should be done. And one version is that if the communication is done, through the avatar. 

The system can make digital twins for vehicles and environments in the virtual world. The digital twin allows us to create complete simulations of how machines operate and how flexible and comfortable the environment is. 

The digital twin of the vehicle and systems allows to testing of different types of vehicles at a certain crossroads. It's possible that in some cases the position of the steering wheel in a lorry or the height of the driver causes a situation in which the driver must go closer to the crossing roads than usual. 

But in the modern world computers can simulate multiple things with a very high accuracy. If the system knows the weight of the vehicle, the coefficient of friction. And the strength of metal alloys and other materials, that system can create a perfect simulation of the machine's internal and external operations. 

Virtual reality makes it possible to test environmental solutions. Things like treadmills with turning platforms help to make the simulation environment flexible and comfortable. The steep uphill may cause a situation. That walker feels uncomfortable. 

And we must ask ourselves: will we rather go uncomfortable uphill to buy some merchandise or buy that merchandise from let's say 150 m farther, but more comfortable place? The thing that can make some streets uncomfortable can cause that especially heavy transporters like lorries go very close to people.