NASA has used AI in human spaceflight, scientific analysis and autonomous systems. Multiple programs like CIMON, ExMC, ASE, Multi-temporal Anomaly Detection for SAR Earth Observations, FDL, robots and rovers are currently available at NASA. It is now working on overcoming the barriers that once blocked it from innovations in AI and Machine Learning. Although Machine Learning has been in existence for 60 years, benefits couldn’t be reaped by NASA because according to Brian Thomas, a NASA agency data scientist and program manager for Open Innovation, they are being held back. Read more at: https://www.aitrends.com/ai-world-government/how-nasa-wants-to-explore-ai/

On 29th June 2018, NASA launched, CIMON, the very first AI-Powered robot into the space. The bot is built with a really interactive AI program which is meant to interact with the people in the space station. Also, it can even assess the human mood and is programmed to answer the voice commands in English. And one more great thing, is it is unlike any mechanical bot/part of space station. It has got its own smiley like face on a space and it can itself move around the space station in zero gravity. It is really interesting to see the pace and direction of technological advancements.