China’s Chang’e-6 rover took an AI-assisted selfie on the Moon’s far side as it collected samples. How so? The 11-pound vehicle is essentially autonomous intelligent mini-robot that utilized algorithms to find the optimal spot on the lunar surface for a photograph of itself.
The mission aims to study the structure, composition, and physical properties of lunar soil. It successfully managed to retrieve rock samples from the far side of the moon, home to numerous craters and limited volcanic activity. Unfortunately, this also causes communication issues for researchers back here on Earth.
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But other systems on various Chang’e spacecraft, as well as recent lunar probes developed by countries other than China, may have also made use of AI,” said Quentin Parker, an astrophysicist from the University of Hong Kong.
