As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years, a Nasa-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by orbiting astronauts.
“This is really a very different kind of program and very importantly it's going to involve machines and humans working together,” Burns said in an interview at his lab on the Boulder campus. The goal is to give astronauts control of the rover “in a quicker fashion and more like doing some sort of video game,” said Ben Mellinkoff, a graduate student at the university. His project is telerobotics, or using artificial intelligence to give users better control over robotic movements from afar.
"It's really going to be a platform for us to start different scientific studies that we couldn't do from the surface of Earth,” said Keith Tauscher, a physics graduate student. US Vice President Mike Pence in March announced an accelerated timeline to put humans on the moon in 2024 “by any means necessary,” cutting the agency’s previous 2028 goal in half and putting researchers and companies into overdrive in the new space race.
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