JPL: NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter with Age

[RJN]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/n ... 00323.html

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location.

[bystander]

Under their own AEGIS

The Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science System, or AEGIS, is being developed by the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems Groups at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to provide automated targeting for remote sensing instruments on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.
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AEGIS operates by analyzing MER navigation camera, or Navcam, images to identify terrain features of interest – large, dark colored rocks, for example. The types of terrain characteristics to target are specified by scientists and uplinked to the robots on Mars.

[neufer]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/n ... 00323.html

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location.

Wait'l it learns to read lips.

[wonderboy]

Is this not quite scary . I mean its a robot, which learns to target rocks at will! sooner or later there'll be robots that can target humans. Its gonna end up like the matrix aint it? lol.