19 August 2019
Roscosmos to send Humanoid AI robot to ISS this week
...’s assistant’ when Skybot F-850 arrives at the ISS on 24 August. In its previous incarnation, Fedor went by the name of Avatar and was created initially to carry out rescue operations, but the robot was later repurposed to include...
02 April 2026
NASA astronauts launch on lunar flyby mission
... under full illumination. Crew observations and other human health scientific investigations during the mission, such as AVATAR, will inform science during future Moon missions. Launch photo by Jacques van Oene for ROOM Space...
29 March 2018
Human Spaceflight: From Mars to the Stars
...biomolecular engineering, and artificial intelligence”. In other words, we won’t get beyond Mars, but our technological avatars will! Friedman says he used to be “disturbed by this” and even “fought against it”, but he is “no longer distressed by the...
