Industrial robotic platforms

An industrial bot configured to operate autonomously in a swarm robotic system to complete a collaborative industrial objective on a celestial body, the industrial bot comprising:

• a payload stack configured to perform a bot-specific industrial task to interact with a rock face or other environmental feature of the celestial body;
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• a universal platform stack supporting the payload stack, wherein the payload stack is one among a plurality of interchangeable different payload stack types that the universal platform stack is configured to support, the universal platform stack comprising:
• a modular robotic hardware platform comprising supporting structure, the robotic hardware platform having been assembled with a first hardware module configuration that is one among a plurality of other possible hardware module configurations, wherein the first hardware module configuration is specific to the bot-specific industrial task and the payload stack, and wherein the plurality of other possible hardware module configurations are specific to other bot-specific industrial tasks and payload stacks,
• a control system configured to control the universal platform stack, and
• a modular robotic software platform configured to operate the robotic hardware platform to perform the bot-specific industrial task using the payload stack, the robotic software platform having been assembled with a first software module configuration that is one among a plurality of other possible software module configurations, wherein the first software module configuration is specific to the bot-specific industrial task and the payload stack, and wherein the plurality of other possible software module configurations are specific to other bot-specific industrial tasks and payload stacks.