Open Questions and Challenges: 

Looking forward, we would like not only continue to question our ideas about what robotic or embedded systems look like (and manifest as), but our notions of ‘traditional’ plot and soil based gardening, and if those can be adapted to a gardening system that offers more flexibility inherently (aquaponics, aeroponics, etc.) For example, if we could simplify the growing process, much of what our system offers would be unnecessary.

Some of the challenges we would face building this at scale would be determining the energy demands of multiple inflatable modules, evaluating if maintaining an air supply would be challenging in a Martian atmosphere, and seeing how well the system adapts to failure of specific modules.