Ariel Ekblaw

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Short Wave · Could Architecture In Space Make A Greener Earth? · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

It's going to be humans and robots working together.

So we call this human-robotic interaction or the symbiosis between humans and robots.

In the future, we're already thinking about things like AI data centers in space, partly to get the carbon footprint of those installations off of Earth, but also to get really abundant green energy from

to those installations.

And so a company that we spun out of our work at Aurelia called Rendezvous Robotics is taking the test array work forward to be able to do things at that scale without humans involved.

But on the habitation side, yes, I think we will have humans.

I think we're a critical part of exploration, what it means to find new knowledge for the sake of new knowledge and explore this frontier.

So I think it'll continue to be a mix of humans and robots.

I anticipate that the workers are less likely than people think from science fiction to actually live in space, steady state.

Turns out it's quite hard to live in microgravity.

Your bones get weaker, your heart gets weaker, your shape of your eyeball changes.

And so what really I think makes more sense is that we think of these installations in low Earth orbit,

for example, close to Earth or between Earth and the moon, as places where you commute to do your work, to do the really special thing that calls you to orbit.

But when you're done with that, if it's two weeks or three months or six months, then you come back down to Earth and you still live your life on Earth.

There is, of course, a farther out future where we've actually figured out artificial gravity.

which is when you spin a habitat gingerly so you don't make people sick, but you spin it a big enough one at a slow enough rate that you can actually get close to Earth's gravity, and then it's healthier for people to live in orbit for long durations.

But in the near term, I think it'll be more like commuting to space than living in space.

This is a really important question for the space industry because at this particular moment, there's not a significant...

carbon footprint from the space industry compared to, say, commercial aviation.

But if we succeed in all of these launches, we very well may scale up to the point where it's significant.

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