I was born in a comunist society and can wholeheartedly tell you (I presume you are from US or a western country): you don't even know or can imagine what inefficient is :)
And who is working to build that automation, who is working to integrate that automation? Who is building the mechanic stuff, the electric stuff the robots and linear tranfer axes, the PlCs and the sensors?
No, you actually say you want to solve your problems without any work from your part, sorry no can do.
Even for a firmware update somebody has to code and work in the background, only the update process itself it's simpler (if you don't consider the work involved in creating the update mechanism and infrastructure itself).
Iny opinion is because this kind o forums are places where people who don't like and don't want to have kids congregate because they are able to express themselves without the peer pressure of the close society they live in.
You're correct about the Appolo missions, but don't tell me the Space Race was about science. It's was fully politically motivated also. Without the Cold War nobody would have put the money and effort in so the Moon landing could happen in '69.
There are a lot of other missions that happened for pure scientific reasons but I don't think this is one of them.
I was born in a comunist society and can wholeheartedly tell you (I presume you are from US or a western country): you don't even know or can imagine what inefficient is :)