Will the first Mars Colonists be ROBOTS?

For tens of years, not a single man, woman or other human being has even reached the surface of the moon. And now there are multiple plans, both serious and not so serious, to even go to Mars! Robots have been there for years now, but no actual human being has ever been there yet. It's simply too hard, too risky, too costly and not enough rewarding to go to Mars.

If a human would go to Mars, he would have to pack food, water, oxygen and more for years. Ofcourse you could attempt producing food and recycling as much water/oxygen as possible, but still it'd be a lot of stuff you would need to take with you.

Now a robot wouldn't need all that stuff. A robot would be much cheaper to send in to space, because it could just generate the electricity by using solar panels/nuclear stuff. The robot also wouldn't care about morale, something humans can lack sometimes. Robots don't get weird space diseases... Robots don't need a funeral either... They can just be stripped apart for all useful pieces and then loaded onto a garbage belt... And besides, Robots could survive way better through the hostile environment on Mars.

The current robots on Mars aren't exactly super intelligent robots creating colonies. They're just some explorers, controlled from Earth and not capable of very much. Instead of Humans or those dumb bots, we could send Intelligent Robots. Artificial Intelligence is getting stronger and stronger everyday and it won't take centuries to get Artificial Intelligence to the level required for Mars Colonisation. The robots could work by themselves, but still be controlled from here, on Earth. Ofcourse they would be much more capable of creating colonies than the current Mars Explorers. These robots could produce extra versions of themselves on Mars with the materials found there and some materials from home, if some necessary components are not found on Mars.

What do you guys think of that? Personally I believe that it would be way better to have Robots prepare the colonies for Humans to come there, rather than humans having to build the colonies from scratch over there. Ofcourse that's just my personal thoughts and I wonder what you guys think of it! :-)

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