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by gwbas1c 1802 days ago
Robots don't need air, food, or sanitary facilities.

Launching to space is severely constrained by the mass you can bring up. You can send up multiple robots compared to the mass needed for all the food, life support ect, for a single person.

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Instead robots need fuel & more infrastructure support to move around and retrieve tools & supplies.

So again, [citation needed]. We don't have, and are no where close to, general purpose miniature lightweight robots, after all.