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NASA trains robots to keep humans alive on Mars

NASA is quietly rewriting the script for human exploration of the Red Planet, turning robots from remote-controlled tools ...
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Challenges for Elon’s Mars Robots: Expert Predicts Potential Failures

The vision of colonizing Mars has been a dream for scientists, explorers, and visionaries for decades, and it seems closer than ever thanks to Elon Musk and SpaceX. While the innovations surrounding ...
autoevolution

MARS Software to Govern Autonomous Robot Workforce That'll Build Space Infrastructure

We will soon get to a point where the human race will expand to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The prime targets for colonization are the Moon and Mars, and plans are already being ...
Hyperallergic

3D Photographs of Life on Mars, Taken by Robots

A view from the Mars Exploration Rover from when it set a one-day distance record for Martian driving, in 2005 (via Panoramic Camera, NASA/JPL-Caltech) The 3D images make up just a small part of the ...
Ars Technica

In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars

give the Mars robot projects an Apollo-scale budget (or even a substantial fraction thereof) and I ‘ll bet it would be astonishing what they could accomplish. The mission advantages of not having to ...