Don't send a tool...
to do a Man's job.
Do you have any idea how expensive it would be to develop the tools to do some of the things I've proposed? And then the tools to fix the tools.
Nah, give me people with skills, judgement, flexibility, adaptability, and the capacity to make intuitive leaps to find solutions that exist outside the norm or expected.
Robots, pshaaw. I wouldn't trust a robot to fill up the gas tank in my car (unsupervised) and you expect me to build a business on robots in space where no one can get to them? As if!