David Oh was lead flight director for the Curiosity Mars rover and is now part of NASA’s mission to Psyche, a 200-km-wide metal asteroid. Our editor Yann Sweeney met with David at SIGGRAPH Asia to discuss whether advances in AI could improve autonomous robots for space exploration.
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Sweeney, Y. Descent into the unknown. Nat Mach Intell 1, 131–132 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0033-4
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