
In short, fewer people are dying untimely deaths. And that’s not only true in rich countries: life expectancy has gone up between 1990 and 2011 in every WHO income bracket.
thinkprogress.org
Standing nearly two metres tall and weighing in at 125kg, it's humanoid in design because it's designed to use our equipment and simulate things real humans will be doing. Only, it'll be the first one doing it, on places like Mars, so that no/fewer humans have to die in the process.
kotaku.com