{"id":78938,"date":"2018-05-22T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/3d-printers-and-robotic-arms-how-one-startup-plans-to-build-colonies-in-space"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:08:19","slug":"3d-printers-and-robotic-arms-how-one-startup-plans-to-build-colonies-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/3d-printers-and-robotic-arms-how-one-startup-plans-to-build-colonies-in-space","title":{"rendered":"3D Printers And Robotic Arms: How One Startup Plans To Build Colonies In Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printers-and-robotic-arms-how-one-startup-plans-to-build-colonies-in-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When history\u2019s pilgrims and pioneers arrived in a new territory, they used the land\u2019s natural resources to build their settlements. Space colonists, on the other hand, will have to bring materials from Earth and assemble them on Mars. Andrew Rush, president and CEO of space-based manufacturing firm Made In Space, believes the process of creating off-world infrastructure will be similar to building IKEA furniture. Only the parts will be made with an advanced 3D printer and put together by an autonomous robot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think the future of in-space operation is one of manufacturing and assembly, just like how you built the table you\u2019re sitting on right now,\u201d Rush says. \u201cThat table is a multi-material object, and its pieces were all manufactured in different ways. I don\u2019t think space colonies are going to take a different approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jenniferjohnson\/2018\/05\/22\/3-d-printers-and-robotic-arms-how-one-startup-plans-to-build-off-world-colonies\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jenniferjohnson\/2018\/05\/22\/3-d-...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When history\u2019s pilgrims and pioneers arrived in a new territory, they used the land\u2019s natural resources to build their settlements. Space colonists, on the other hand, will have to bring materials from Earth and assemble them on Mars. Andrew Rush, president and CEO of space-based manufacturing firm Made In Space, believes the process of creating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79049,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78938\/revisions\/79049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}