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Robots and artificial intelligence are an increasingly common part of everyday life. We have them designing new medicines, answering questions (sometimes incorrectly), and serving as our own personal digital assistants. Given enough time, they might invade every part of our lives from empathy to exploration. Just ask M3GAN, a state-of-the-art Model 3 generative android designed to be your best bud.
M3GAN's first theatrical at-bat ended in bloodshed, which might be why the latest artificial intelligence-powered robot to come out of real-world labs is destined for the Red Planet. Recently a team of researchers led by Jun Jiang at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei demonstrated an AI-equipped robot capable of making oxygen from scratch using only Martian materials. The results from this mechanical chemist were published in the journal Nature Synthesis.
As we push toward the next phase of human space exploration, there’s a lot of focus on using local materials at our final destination. Anything we can find or make on the Moon, Mars, or elsewhere is something we don’t have to launch out of a gravity well and carry on our backs. And there’s nothing more useful than oxygen.
The robotic, artificially intelligent chemist takes the shape of a large box about the size of a refrigerator turned on its side. A robotic arm sticks out of one side, allowing the robot to manipulate materials. Researchers gave the robot five meteorites which either came from Mars or had compositions mimicking the Martian surface, then they stepped away.
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M3GAN's first theatrical at-bat ended in bloodshed, which might be why the latest artificial intelligence-powered robot to come out of real-world labs is destined for the Red Planet. Recently a team of researchers led by Jun Jiang at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei demonstrated an AI-equipped robot capable of making oxygen from scratch using only Martian materials. The results from this mechanical chemist were published in the journal Nature Synthesis.
As we push toward the next phase of human space exploration, there’s a lot of focus on using local materials at our final destination. Anything we can find or make on the Moon, Mars, or elsewhere is something we don’t have to launch out of a gravity well and carry on our backs. And there’s nothing more useful than oxygen.
The robotic, artificially intelligent chemist takes the shape of a large box about the size of a refrigerator turned on its side. A robotic arm sticks out of one side, allowing the robot to manipulate materials. Researchers gave the robot five meteorites which either came from Mars or had compositions mimicking the Martian surface, then they stepped away.
An AI Powered Robot Just Figured Out How to Make Oxygen on Mars
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