" Ahead of its mid-2030s target to land humans on Mars, NASA loaned three of its four 'Valkyrie' robots, which could play a part in colonising the planet, to MIT, a joint project between Northeastern and UMass-Lowell, and Edinburgh University in Scotland, to develop the robots' skills and improve their software. The robots are being used for research at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where they will be able to explore how people interact with computers by interacting with them using natural language Currently costing $2m apiece, the robots need to be able to function autonomously given the complexity of the tasks they are expected to be charged with and the time delay in communications between Earth and Mars.
Ahead of its mid-2030s target to land humans on Mars, NASA loaned three of its four 'Valkyrie' robots, which could play a part in colonising the planet, to MIT, a joint project between Northeastern and UMass-Lowell, and Edinburgh University in Scotland, to develop the robots' skills and improve their software. The robots are being used for research at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where they will be able to explore how people interact with computers by interacting with them using natural language Currently costing $2m apiece, the robots need to be able to function autonomously given the complexity of the tasks they are expected to be charged with and the time delay in communications between Earth and Mars.