How Space will be Settled

Space will be settled like this:

  1. we will “impregnate” space with robots that build robots
  2. the robots will build infra and homes for us
  3. frontier families will settle those homes and oversee local operations
  4. we continue ad nauseam

There are two reasons that space will be settled by hordes of self-reproducing robots:

Humans are too expensive
Self-reproducing robots is possible this century