Space robots to make their own decision by 2020

Monday, July 28th, 2008...10:10 am

Space robots to make their own decision by 2020

By year 2020 scientists are planning to release robots that will make decisions on their own and explore the universe for us.

Wolfgang Fink, a physicist and senior researcher at the California Institute of Technology says that researchers are working on spacecrafts that will operate autonomously and collect data and make quick decisions about what needs to be investigated when they pass a particular area.

Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer for human exploration of far space,” said Fink. “We haven’t yet landed a human being on Mars but we have a robot there now. In that sense, it’s much easier to send a robotic explorer. When you can take the human out of the loop, that is becoming very exciting.

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