Send Your Avatar to the Moon with NASA’s Project M

Just don’t fall in love with any of the natives. They may not be too thrilled when they find out you don’t actually look like that in person.

Mond says it- The rovers on Mars already did exactly that.
The main differences are that on the Moon, the return signal is much faster so the interaction between the drone and the operator is much better. And if they use a humanoid-drone combined with some good interfaces like biofeedback touch and 3d-surround vieuwing and such, the human-experience can be enhanced.

Another advantage is that all that hardware can be sent one-way with no hardware and costs needed for the return-trip.

Seems we have a spammer on every comment section today

What a load of crap.

They can’t make a “humanoid robot” with a “avatar like” interface work here on earth with it’s zero time delay between avatar and operator.

Add in the 2.6ish second delay and it’s next to impossible (you’re reaching for a rock – by the time you see/feel your hand approaching the rock – it’s already way past and buried up to it’s wrist in regolith).

This thing is either an out and out hoax, or it’s just a pr stunt for some viral ad. In either case it has NOTHING to do with NASA (go ahead – call NASA’s PR office and ask them about “project m” – after they stop laughing – assuming they don’t just hang up – you’ll see).