NASA Develops Robust Artificial Intelligence for Planetary Rovers
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NASA is planning to add a strong dose of artificial intelligence (AI) to planetary rovers to make them much more self-reliant, capable of making basic decisions during a mission. Scientists are developing very complex AI software that enables a higher level of robotic intelligence.
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PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- As NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space agency extended
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PASADENA, CALIF. - The twin Martian robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity will explore the Red Planet for another six months, NASA said Tuesday.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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Gusts of wind have cleared dust from  the solar collectors on one of two robot rovers on the surface  of Mars and both have awakened from the sleep NASA put them  into, the space agency said on Friday.
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Next week, three dozen robot cars bristling with lasers, radars, and antennas compete in Darpa's Urban Challenge race. If all goes as planned, it'll be as orderly as a procession of golf carts in downtown Sun City. But it could just as easily turn into a robot smash-up derby.
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NASA is paying for the Mars Rovers to keep working. The twin rovers &quot;Spirit&quot; and &quot;Opportunity&quot; landed on the surface of Mars last January.
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NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across  an interesting object&nbsp;-- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani  Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer  (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking rock is made of  metal.
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When the Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit reached their distant destination in early 2004, NASA scientists hoped the vehicles would probe the planet's frigid landscape for 90 days before they pooped out or were undone by the harsh Martian environment.
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Not only are NASA&#39;s seemingly unstoppable Mars rovers continuing their progress half a year beyond their design lifetimes, but Opportunity has recently shown an unexplained increase in its solar-cell power output, NASA has revealed.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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NASA thinks its Mars rovers just might keep going and going and going. The space agency has funded another extension of their mission, for an additional six months, if they last.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rovers don&#39;t seem to be wearing out so mission planners have begun to think more boldly, including a plan to let one climb up a steep &quot;escape hatch&quot; from a crater it has been exploring and set out on a trek across a plain.
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NASA's adventurous Discovery program--responsible for the first rover on another planet, the first landing on an asteroid, the first samples of a comet returned to Earth and much more--is about to get even better.
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While those unflappable interplanetary twins - Spirit and Opportunity - continue to trudge across Mars, engineers and scientists are readying the next robotic rover destined to trail across the distant sands of the red planet.
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NASA scientists are testing a hardy underwater robot that will ply the waters of Wisconsin, then the Antarctic before heading to the icy seas of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.