NASA Boosts AI For Planetary Rovers

transcendent writes "According to Space Daily, NASA is working on increasing the ability of future rover's AI. From the article: 'It now takes the human-robot teams on two worlds several days to achieve each of many individual objectives... A robot equipped with AI, on the other hand, could make an evaluation on the spot, achieve its mission faster and explore more'. Sounds like a good idea, but the article continues, 'Today's technology can make a rover as smart as a cockroach, but the problem is it's an unproven technology'. Another article about autonomous rovers being developed by Carnegie Mellon University is here."

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"Cockroach" is a synopsis of truth

[jonhuang]

The more famous quotation (which I suspect is the root of the 'cockroack' descriptor) is: "Robots today have the collective knowledge and wisdom of a cockroach... a retarded cockroach... a lobotomized, retarded cockroach." -Dr. Michio Kaku

AI

[noselasd]

People wanting to get some feel of AI, take a look at
http://www.ai-junkie.com/ann/evolved/nnt1.html
It's a small app that automagically learns minesweepers to
pick up mines ;)