Saving The Mankind: This Is How 'Spiders' Will Help Build A Home For Humans In Space

Tether Unlimited is building spider-like robots that will potentially help build homes for human mankind in space. The development of the futuristic system, dubbed “SpiderFab” is being funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, or NASA.

The futuristic Arachnid-like drone system will construct large objects in the orbit around the Earth or any other solar system potentially capable of sustaining human life. According to the Tether Unilimted CEO Dr Robert Hoyt, the SpiderFab system is capable of constructing radio antennas, spacecraft, solar arrays and other human-supporting infrastructure by working is a similar fashion as that of a 3D printer.

Hoyt firmly believes that one-day robotic spiders can potentially be used to build infrastuture in space that will help humans expand their presence in the rest of the universe. "Our really long-term objective for all of this work is to eventually enable the use of in-situ resources to construct the infrastructure in space needed to support humanity's expansion throughout the solar system," said Hoyt, during a presentation with NASA, reported Sputnik News.

Moreover, Hoyt believes that assembling different mechanical parts into a single spacecraft on Earth is only a waste of resources and time. His vision is to have a spider-robot capable of achieving the same sought of manufacturing of a spacecraft in the outer world itself.

"It's a very expensive and time-consuming process, and also, the size of systems is somewhat limited by the size of the deployables that are possible to fold up and fit within a launch shroud," said Hoyt, reported The Express.

If developed successfully, SpiderFab will held lower the construction cost for infrastructure by requiring only raw material such as carbon fibres for its launch.

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