This would define a new class of bots on the Internet if it could be done!

I was under the impression that the mobile emitter was itself a piece of future tech that Voyager recovered from an incident involving time travel. Without that he could only appear in key areas of the ship that had been equipped with the necessary emitters for him to function properly. Similarly, in the episode where he meets his maker, the laboratory would have been similarly equipped with stationary emitters to support his program needs.SceneKing wrote:I just woke up from a dream where I had my robots designing and building new blog websites for me according to the blueprints that I had designed. When I woke up, I couldn't help but wonder if there could be a way to actually do this using a device similar to the doc's portable holographic emitter that he wore on his arm (in Star Trek: Voyager) that allowed him to go anywhere outside of sick bay. In this case, the device in Factorio could be called a remote Roboport.
This would define a new class of bots on the Internet if it could be done!
Probably not. Our computers still aren't quite smart enough. Though we have had pick and place bots for years and drone delivery services are in development that would behave similar to logistics bots. But bots capable of building things by themselves don't exist just yet, they still rely on humans to direct them and to deal with the immense variability that comes with installation of an assembled piece of machinery.huwp wrote:The main thing holding back real life construction bots and a lot of future technology is terrible battery capacity. If battery life were to double tomorrow, we'd have industrial drones I think.