What Terence Eden thinks about robotics

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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1. 20 Sept 2026

   Our readingThe absence of autonomous drone-built housing on Earth is evidence that claims about robot-built space habitats are overhyped.

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   Their wordsThe fact that we don't have swarms of drones prefabbing houses in the relatively benign atmosphere of our planet should be evidence that maybe these claims aren't quite matched with reality.

   ↗Book Review: How to Build a Space Station by Jonathan Morrison ★★★⯪☆shkspr.mobi 2nd of 3 in this piece