Non Sequitur. Your Facts are Uncoordinated.

Computerworld reports:

July 24, 2008 (Computerworld) Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us.

Researchers are working on creating autonomous spacecrafts that will be able to analyze data about points of interest as it passes and then make quick decisions about what needs to be investigated, according to Wolfgang Fink, a physicist and senior researcher at the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Fink is demonstrably a very smart dude.

Hope they have a hash of the operational code that the bot has to check periodically for integrity to prevent self-destruct.  Otherwise, NOMAD may come visiting someday…