TIMELAPSE: Robots Building the Mars Base

10 SpaceX Starships are carrying 120 robots to Mars. They are the first to colonize the Red Planet. Building robot habitats to protect themselves, and then landing pads, structures, and the life support systems for the humans who will soon arrive.
This Mars colonization mini documentary also covers they type of robots that will be building on Mars, the solar fields, how Elon Musk and Tesla could have a battery bank station at the Mars colony, and how the Martian colony expands during the 2 years when the robots are building. Known as the Robotic Age of Mars.
Additional footage from: SpaceX, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, ICON, HASSEL, Tesla, Lockhead Martin
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A building on Mars sci-fi documentary, and a timelapse look into the future.
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Books
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• The Foundation: amzn.to/3i753dU
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• Mars Astronaut Surviva...
• TIMELAPSE OF FUTURE SPACECRAFT: 2025 - 3000+
• TIMELAPSE OF FUTURE SP...
• NASA 1958 - 2100 (Timelapse of Past and Future Technology)
• NASA 1958 - 2100 (Time...

[@nemuirostorageroom]

100 years from now those robots will be put in a museum on Mars as a great reminder of their efforts to help us humans

[@AniWho268]

How odd that I was watching the mars astronaut training video, then a brand new video pops up. I was wondering what video you could do next. Never thought about the robots before the mars astronauts arrived. So cool idea.

[@VentureCity]

Glad you liked it.

[@AniWho268]

@@gutluckbro9802 I've seen it. It was the first video I found from this channel.

[@PAAC-oe4oz]

Yup watch this and after a while training video for mars pops up ...Good KZbin Algorithm

[@AniWho268]

@@PAAC-oe4oz Um, not the same thing, but ok.

[@SuperChuckRaney]

Builder Bots. Sci Fi has also had scenarios where they have Miner Robots, cause the mined out caverns are weather proof and sealed "by rocks " The 3D printer is functional now, they are 3d printing using an arm like here and use a cement slurry. You can find pics online, Only thing he left out here, was a special group of bots that can scavange and build/rebuild NEW bots to work unseen issues.

[@bionic1matt]

Everyone watching this video, we were all born at a time when we can witness the birth of human space colonization. This is the infancy of our true space age. We are lucky enough to exist at a time where we can see it all unfold and take its first steps, It is incredible.

[@edwardroy3401]

Only KZbin videos I watch 5-10 times in a row when they are released

[@UnCannyValley67]

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[@CameronBrtnik]

*not including YouPorn

[@safer_Ali]

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[@kenbeltrone6088]

The Race IS On !!!

[@swapnilkadam7957]

This bring more respect for Mother earth and Nature to me!! it's high time to protect Mother earth!!

[@Artscardshop]

I absolutely love this, I hope that you make more videos about future technology.

[@barrysotero137]

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[@Artscardshop]

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[@ipincsmuhammad9162]

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[@Forxxen]

​@@barrysotero137It's called SCIENCE fiction for a reason. Fiction based on theoretically proven concepts. If you come back to this in 100 years, you would be surprised how much of this is actually true

[@dbrown101272]

This is the best video I have ever watched on this subject, bar none. Utterly compelling.

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

Where are all the skeptics, naysayers, people who say that we should use the money for something else, blah, blah, blah.

[@jacobgilbert1460]

I love these space videos! your channel is one of my favorites on youtube! keep up the good work!

[@arcosprey4811]

The best thing to come out of AI art is the ability to make beautiful pictures for youtube videos.

[@tzboy2603]

Fr

[@reinerbraun9995]

True ❤

[@estevanmartinez7064]

Best thing to do is get rid of AI

[@Driksenn]

Thank you so much for making this videos, they are truly inspiring!

[@leventsl]

Absolutely love this type of content! Great job and great narration please keep it coming!!!!

[@hypernovagaming822]

@Jack Sparrow It's the plan for the future of humanity, 100 years ago hearing that there was a chance we would ever be able to have thin TVs, VR, and smartphones that were as powerful as computers seemed like a fairy tail. Although they became reality much sooner than expected.

[@leventsl]

@Jack Sparrow fairy tales? What part? We have already landed robots on Mars. The missing key is rapid reusable rockets and that is hopefully just around the corner.

[@jan_phd]

A bunch of explorers will be marching on touch down, crying that they're too white!

[@hillbillyintheasia6122]

tesla bot be control thur nuralink live operator.

[@MR_LoreYT]

Is no one going to talk about how these robots did so much work before the humans landed on mars? Imagine how long in the future to have these robots work atomunusly and do these tasks without being guided by a human millions of kilometers away from mars i think by then i would not live to see it yes. AI had some progress like chat gpt but still it will take more decades to have these intelligent robots roaming mars and doing their own thing

[@xivit]

As a Surviving Mars player, I can confirm that this is totally accurate

[@martinbrixx]

Easily the best channel on KZbin ! thank you for the amazing content Venture City!!!

[@VentureCity]

You are welcome Martin

[@77x0]

This was really good I hope this can become a reality one day for space exploration

[@Resol99999]

The day humans set foot on Mars will be the most important day in the world

[@emr383]

Love these! Amazing and informative... Thank you so much!

[@user-cd4kh5cr9b]

Wow, very impressive. Excellent futurism. You addressed the most important issues with the best consensus solutions we have now. Personally I see atomic energy playing a huge role but that's an aside. Your vid has a ton of graphics I haven't seen before so if you made all that, double wow. I was really glad to see that in your scenario humans come later and an orbital infrastructure comes first. I think you could have made this a longer vid, explaining how propellant could be stored in ship tanks, how mining work can result in underground bases and tunnels, and so forth but I'm grateful for what I got. Subbed with notifications of course, and going back to watch all your previous work. Thanks! 🌍 🚀 🌒 🌌 👽

[@tekmepikcha6830]

The wait is over! Ventura made a post finally 🙌🏽😅

[@AlexM710]

One of my favorite channels! Great work as always!

[@deanlawson6880]

Wow this is great! Very well thought out, insightful and thoughtful video. This is so well done that I could imagine that NASA could use this as a template plan for our future construction and colonization of Mars base! Very Nicely Done!!

[@siaosimahe3190]

I was thinking about this idea of sending robots first for years to see this video is amazing

[@I_Am_AI_007]

The building is nicknamed ‘Homebase’. How creative!!!

[@malcolmrickarby2313]

Bowie Base is good.

[@sandzilemabuza]

Love 😂❤ how you mention the robots will be waiting to welcome humans.

[@malcolmrickarby2313]

Patient and welcoming?

[@Denny-ix9sx]

I've written this before myself. This is the intelligent way to safely expand the boundaries and territories of mankind. This is how you use machines. Let them hazard a shoulder the unforeseen and seen risk and burdens that could potentially prove deadly to living people.

[@JulioEstheban]

Спасибо оператору, что сьездил туда и сделал столь потрясающие кадры!

[@malcolmrickarby2313]

Getting the images back in time was difficult.🤔

[@sjdave]

I remember my parents telling me to clean my room before I go outside to play. Perhaps we should focus on that first.

[@davocc2405]

I think Elon Musk mentioned needing to take a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) rather than panels. When weight/space is limited this probably makes quite a bit more sense; panels are more difficult to set up and maintain, clean, etc. remembering that Mars receives only 43% of the light of earth... By that stage we should be better at building small modular reactors with decades of fuel, just two (perhaps one for primary and a second for redundancy) initially and then a third when humans arrive. You enjoy more consistent (and night resistant) power and there's not the need to store it with batteries nearly as much. Additionally any high energy functions (e.g. mining, brick firing, etc.) are instantly better serviced from a reactor.

[@DarkKhagan]

This video reminds me of the very first computer game I ever owned it was Outpost. Basically the game was designed to be an open-ended simulation that tasted the players ability to establish a colony, discover and mine resources that can be used to advance technology and provide a life-sustaining environment in the stark and inhospitable landscape of an alien world. It was definitely ahead of it's time.

[@myu874]

Fantastic video! Can't help wondering when the robots are going to realise that they'd be better off without the human meat bag overlords 😮

[@Fortizar]

Love this series can't wait for the next one

[@ananthus1608]

Man why did thought of Wall E

[@MagicCarpetRide8669]

Cool idea but it would be a massive leap for robots to start building a base on Mars, from what they are doing now. Current rovers might move a few dozen feet per day and aren't doing much besides snapping some pictures and drilling into a rock. I'm sure it's possible but this is very optimistic if we're being honest. More likely humans will land with supplies and live out of the Starships as they're getting a base set up.

[@DbeeSapphire]

Yes, and support robots as well. Likely takes both. By the time we get humans to mars, humanoid robots will be fairly useful.

[@KEVinspires_]

Love these videos 🤍

[@gerdahessel2268]

12:35 ..."the robots are enjoying their freedom.." 😀

[@exhibit_fx]

I love how you make everything seem easy😅. Nice video btw

[@alexmontgomery255]

This was brilliant. Well done.

[@thestudentofficial5483]

Surviving Mars players: just like the simulations

[@pythontf188]

Bro, this new dlc looks sick

[@dustygreene3335]

Very cool, wish I knew who made these videos....and why are they not on twitter? That's where all cool mars / spacex stuff is

[@daveadams6421]

I've always thought that this is a far better option than sending fragile humans to such a hostile environment to do all the initial setting up of a colony 👍

[@kentaroyamada8505]

This is well done! Thank you!!

[@vegasromaniac]

well done, not even good !

[@emmanuelm361]

Well done. Still, it's not going to work like this. Let's cross our fingers for a good outcome and thanks for the sharing. Great work 😉

[@lengchai27]

A pretty optimistic plan. Such an implementation would be a serious challenge even here on Earth, unlike on Mars, where a thousand things can and will go wrong.

[@valberm]

To me, Mars and space colonization in general is the perfect field for the use of robots, to the point that maybe humans should have no business being there in the first place (at least not as "early" as people want it). However, and I was thinking about it as I was watching the video, if you really pay attention to it, most challenges (and not only related to space) are most of the times not tackled or tackled with a half-assed approach simply because of lack of justification / motivation. See, we *are* capable of creating robots that do all that described in the video on Mars. We just don't create robots that do that here on Earth because of the lack of justification (or: the economics of it). That's the reason, for example, why humans were able to visit the Moon as early as in the 60's. It's possible when you have the justification (in that case it was the Cold War). The justification this time for creating robots capable of self-organizing on Mars is two-fold: first, it's Mars, it must work (so don't just implement anything that works, but something that is very robust); second, the patron of this project is one of the richest and most inspiring men on Earth (alas he's been trying hard to smear his image lately, but anyway...) who is able to concentrate brilliant and motivated people to make the greatest challenges work. It may seem silly, but the motivational factor is really decisive.

[@FrontGardeninNormandy]

Great content as usual ! Thank you Venture City 🤙

[@TheKdcool]

Summary from GPT4: Ten starships carrying 120 robots are on their way to Mars to build and colonize the planet before humans arrive. The robots will first build structures for their own protection and fuel before starting phase two, which is building the Mars colony for humans. They have a timeline of two years and two months to complete their mission, known as the robotic age of Mars. The robots work autonomously due to communication delays between Earth and Mars. They establish network connections with each other, starlink satellites, and Mars rovers, creating the first hive mind on the red planet. Human mission control on Earth adjusts their sleep schedule to match Mars time. The robots work on building robot habitats, solar fields, and storage garages. They face challenges like dust storms, solar flares, hardware and software malfunctions, and extreme temperatures. They are grouped into two classes: dumb robots and AI machines. Dumb robots perform tasks like transporting and mining, while AI robots make autonomous decisions and have specialized tools. As the base grows, robots build structures like emergency domes, biodomes for plants, and life support systems for future human inhabitants. Mining robots collect ice samples for purity analysis and resource extraction. Carbon capture towers, electrolysis facilities, and saboteer reactors are built to produce methane rocket fuel and oxygen. Robots prepare the building site for human habitats, clearing debris and grading the surface. They also harvest soil, which is mixed with plant glue and turned into filament for 3D habitat printers. Once the robot settlement is self-sustaining, the next phase begins: building infrastructure for humans, including oxygen, water, and rocket fuel production.

[@odacruz4986]

Fascinating such a shame I'm getting old

[@valecasini]

10:23 obviously have to say that this isn't the actual arm but an old lander that we sent on Mars

[@isaacmartin3DArtist]

Great work of CGI Artists! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@francescohenaut39]

its AI lol

[@dannyb3663]

12:16 I love how awkwardly they move :)

[@erichjeske]

Die Landung der ersten Menschen auf dem Mars wird 1000 mal aufregender sein wie die Mondlandung. Bin gespannt ob ich das noch erleben kann.

[@1minutecomicswalahollywood648]

Hello Venture City, I am a new subscriber.

[@sawmakai]

this was so damn good!!

[@JayendrenSubramoney]

Brilliant Video! The plan of using robots to initially colonise Mars is well thought and realistic. The first human explorers will have to be Vegan for the tours, because there won't be any cows on Mars. Furthermore, sending meat and diary to Mars will be cost prohibitive. The space explorers will eats plants only, increasing the lifespan of people living offworld. Another scenario to consider, is that we might be using Clean Cultured Meat on Mars because even now we can grow meat. Being able to grow meat will come in handy on Mars because you could even grow organs like skin in the case of medical emergencies. I would also add that the Starlink satellites will have Bitcoin nodes running on them to provide the monetary network for longer term development of a Mars colony. The blockchain tech running of these Satellites nodes will also be used to run DAOs(Decentralised Autonomous Organisations) forming the basis for the first governance structures on Mars. Excellent videos - looking forward to more.

[@sasisavocations5990]

I can see the beautiful coordination between the robots and the humans

[@ezekielbeckett5396]

Hope I'm still alive to see the first man on Mars.

[@NaGuru-yt8xf]

Wouldn't it be more interesting or meaningful to build it by their own hands for the first people on Mars? I mean be pioneer there and start from the begining in such a harsh conditions on a new planet would be something phenomenal.

[@absolutelynotLily]

Excited to see the IRL construction begin for these robot rovers

[@falcon127]

THE BEST PLAN SO FAR!

[@maxagist]

Brilliant utilisation of moderan ai tech to give a glimpse in future and give well visualised inspiration to sci-fi creator and cool predictions!

[@1003196110031961]

As always guys, great job. Loved every second of it.

[@goldfing5898]

12:28 These rovers with high legs remind me of the one shown in James Cameron's "Aliens" from 1986 (the scene where Newt's family investigating the mysterious signal known from Ridley Scott's first movie). I remember reading the slogan "Weyland - Yutani: Building better worlds" in the colony. It seems that 1986's science fiction is coming closer to reality now.

[@NeilEvans-xq8ik]

Mars Will Rise. The Mouldy Filters. Awesome song.

[@jeremie2020]

What man is capable of is truly insane...fascinating.

[@pugthepug7910]

U should read about what alien species millions of years older than us are capable of.

[@joaquinbarreto9398]

Im going to simplify this entire mission. Send out two starships that will be set at 2 separate la grange points one on the closer side to earth and the other on the closer side to mars. Both will act as a refueling station where half the starship has fuel tank capacity and the other half advance satellite telecommunications array. The primary reason is for creating a datalink that allows advanced robotics to have a have a constant uninterrupted data feed that allows operators on earth to control human like robots that have the ability to build and construct. The 10 starships would consist of 1 compact fission reactor like what’s already being developed. The other 9 would have materials required to build everything needed. Turn Martian soil to concrete, unpack structures, ventilation systems and indoor farms assemblies.

[@Stephen-gi1rx]

Narrator: "This era is known as the robotic age of Mars when the planet was inhabited solely by robots." Really? Last I checked Mars was inhabited solely by robots right now.

[@eddieburris675]

Really dope idea! But with the delay in transmission it seems like you would have to send at least 2 people to manage the robots.

[@justdoingitjim7095]

And later the A.I. thinks, "Since we did all of this by ourselves, what do we need weak humans for?" Mars based Sky Net begins!

[@jamesmmcgill]

Here comes the Sun... Here comes the Sun... And I say, It's all right!

[@chrislong3938]

Wow! This sure fires the imagination!!! If only someone would pay for it all! Why would robots need flood lights? ;-)

[@Unknown15916]

That must be the most expensive garage in the Solar System !

[@pua0150]

Ohh just found my new favourite channel 😮

[@rodgerdehart4678]

This is so well thought out and most technologies mentions including the 3D printing of buildings is currently being researched for Martian use

[@timopkokko]

This is immensely beautiful and functional too.

[@timopkokko]

Please consider this: There probably is indigenous life on Mars. Do we really want to contaminate it? I would vote against humans landing on Mars.

[@timopkokko]

We already know that there is life on Mars. The secondary test of the Viking lander heated the sample, destroying the organic matter, and thus giving a negative result. It was the fault of the secondary test.

[@timopkokko]

The salinity on Mars is weird. As an engineer, I do not yet understand it.

[@user-rf9jd4nc9p]

Amazing video with epic music ! Thanks for inspiration.

[@luckyyy6510]

I’m so excited to see humans on Mars

[@jeffharmed1616]

Brilliant video. Please continue phase 2 etc. A minor improvement. Launchpads need to be constructed and TBMs used to construct safe and fast transport tunnels from the launchpads to the base. Add the underground rocket fuel tanks. Enter the Boring Company with TBMs

[@Rafaga777]

Love it. Great video and splendid narration.

[@dsoprano13]

Not how I imagined it. Building such sophisticated robots would take decades. I think it's easier to deploy a space station with humans in the Mars orbit and have them remotely control the machines that will do the construction.

[@24tanksalot]

Can't wait for the next video

[@AwaixJavaid]

What a great short-film.

[@frankblangeard8865]

No Mars probe has ever retlurned to earth. Going to Mars is a one way trip. Those who want to go to Mars should consider that well.

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

You would have to be a special kind of person who wouldn't go insane living in a small area. It would be like living in your bedroom 24/7

[@perrycomeau2627]

Magic moments.

[@tfd5088]

Your content always gives me adrealine

[@stargazer-elite]

I love this channel

[@micheltorres1997]

Bro this is one of the best videos i have ever seen!

[@edwardroy3401]

Love the depiction of the vanguard of humanity this Martian civilization represents

[@meltdown7259]

Oh my God, this is amazing.Let's do this.Let's make it.Let's go

[@travishylton6976]

it wont happen

[@onetruekeeper]

Hopefully quantum entanglement radio will give instantaneous communication and remote control with the robots. Some tasks or unforseen occurances could be too complicated for robots to handle on their own.

[@Yolocaust_]

Lol

[@abcdefghjijklfgu]

23 months was intense

[@stargazer-elite]

Ooo so this a 3 parter 😁 I’m excited to see what’s next

[@MuhammedAli-td5qs]

I am just amazed by the thought of it.

[@Chhiling08]

Too many things to process in my brain. By the way 10/10 video presentation

[@yohighness]

Awesome animations! The burning question is, how many launches will be needed to carry all those thousands of tonnes of heavy machinery? Are the current heavy-lifters from Space X configured to carry such loads?

[@waxilliumladrian]

If you watch Interviews with Mars experts from NASA, we are far more steps behind thinking about the number of space vehicles needed. There are still problems we don't have solutions for. The Starships would likely be to heavy to land on unprepared Martian ground and the distribution of mass and the idea of the current Starship designs we know of could not possibly be unloaded on Mars. The energy requirement for such a mission displayed in the video would require an enormous amount of energy. So 10 Starhips would be needed only for solar panels or small nuclear powerplants. The list goes on. Hypothetically a fully Starship could take around 3-10 tonnes of payload to Mars (1,200t Fuel in a Starship, gear-ratio of Mars 226:1) But you need to Land the Starship on Mars. Figures I found loosely about the dV of a Starhip fully tanked in LEO ranged from 6900 to 9000 m/s. To Land on Mars you'd need 4500-6000 m/s, so the payload size reduces by 2/3 for a powered landing of a starship. So I guess 0.5-2 tonnes of Mars-payload for a landed Starship would be a realistic number

[@nellym46664]

I'm guessing the heavy machines, and perhaps everything else will have to be built on the moon and launched from there.

[@waxilliumladrian]

@@nellym46664 This doesn't change the payload calculations in the slightest. Starting from LEO or starting from LLO. It only complicates the tanking of the Starhips after reaching LLO. Usually you'll need to launch 2 Starships in order to fully tank one. Now with Lunar insertion and circulations you may need idk ... 10? Let alone building factories on the moon. That will be a decades operation. Building the equipment there won't happen and would not even be easier for reaching Mars. Nice sci fi idea tho

[@dr.strangelove5709]

still 20 years till this point. cant wait.

[@newsreviewerrobot-4639]

Thanks for sharing your insights on this topic.

[@ThorsMartell]

For communication and coordinates: I think the first step would be building a high orbit satellite network around Mars, providing communication and exact coordinates and maps at any point of the martian surface at all times. Since descending from high orbit to low orbit and land takes up a lot of energy, it is actually a lot cheaper to move stuff into a high orbit around Mars than to the surface. Therefore, I believe that a network of space solar panels will also be built prior to landing. The space solar panels send the energy to the surface as microwaves. The colony and robots on the surface will simply have microwave-antennas absorbing the incoming microwave beams. These antennas are far more smaller, lighter and perfectly dust resilient, compared to solar panels. In the long run, the best option for energy supply on Mars is probably a nuclear power plant, built with local materials. Since the crust of Mars contains far higher concentration of metals, I believe it shouldnt be too hard to find some Uranium or Thorium. If you drill deep enough, you will also find some water for the steam circle, if not, CO2 can also be used. For cooling, the atmosphere of Mars can also be used. A water body is not required, though water is naturally far more effective for cooling as the thin martian atmosphere.

[@themax2go]

what's your suggestion w/ the microwave power transmitters based on - any practical experience or vids about that? i like the idea, provided it works technologically, and question is, what is the falloff rate of the microwave power by the time it reaches the antennas, compared to solar panels, especially considering the various mars weather conditions / atmospheric changes.

[@ThorsMartell]

​@@themax2go Solar panels are far more effective in space than at the surface, especially on a high orbit or a polar orbit where they never cross the planet's shadow. The technology, beaming energy from space solar panels down by micro-waves is already being hotly debated and definitely possible. The only problem is, it will never be economical for power generation on earth. People totally underestimate the cost of space travel. It is literally astronomical. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4K8o4asaZeAbKc On Mars, the atmosphere is much thiner, making power transmission by microwaves even more economical. Only the higher distance to sun and the dust in the Marsian atmosphere are downsides. Still, far better than building solar panesl on the surface.

[@austin.england]

Wow. You deserve a ton more views.

[@TropicalCoder]

That was so cool!

[@anthonyrosa4388]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[@chrismartin9084]

I absolutely love love love this channel but it sucks that I won't make it long enough to witness any of this. At least I can live vicariously through Venture City🎉

[@-.-.__..]

You will! Don’t worry. If you are under 50 you will live to see this, because this is much nearer than you think.