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NASA Boosts AI For Planetary Rovers

Posted by michael on from the hunter-seeker dept.

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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  1. Frist Prost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frist Prost

  2. A...I... by interactive_civilian · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Caboose: What's the A stand for?
    Church:Artificial.
    Caboose: Ahh...What's the--
    Church: INTELLIGENCE!

    Red vs. Blue

    Interestingly enough, the RvB Public Service Announcement #6 on this page is rather fitting for this article.

    :-)

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  3. Reminds of me Beagle 2... by p0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NASA, why dont you learn from Beagle 2? The British made it so intelligent that when it landed on Mars, it completely Osama!

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  4. Re:Out of control? by MooseByte · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Damn, just when I ran out of mod points too. :-)

  5. Re:Potential situation by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm as much of a language Nazi as anyone on /., but I have to point out that more than half of your "corrections" are matters of simple style, not actual correctness. You also have at least one typo in your version; it's a good idea to check your own usage very carefully before posting something like that.

    [desperately trying to get this on topic] You sound a bit like a proofreading AI program that hasn't been fully trained yet. ;)

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  6. Re:What it should say... by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    HAL has been reclassified as a terrorist.

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