This robot produces oxygen on Mars with the help of artificial intelligence

Chinese researchers have developed a robot equipped with artificial intelligence that can help produce oxygen on Mars. But how and using what resources?

One of the most important human obstacles to interstellar travel is the difficulty of breathing in space. Oxygen is essential for human life, and unfortunately, there is no such volume of oxygen for human breathing anywhere except on Earth. With space agencies and aerospace researchers eyeing Mars exploration, providing oxygen for long-term space travel is very important. Researchers have made predictions about life on the red planet and are looking into the possibilities of human life on it as an alternative planet.

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In this regard, many researches have been conducted, all of which are focused on the production of oxygen in space. One of the most recent researches has been conducted by the researchers of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei city and about a chemist robot powered by artificial intelligence. The purpose of this robot is to extract water from Mars and convert it into oxygen.

Jun Jiang, one of the supervisors of this research, says:

We have developed an artificial intelligence robotic system that has a chemist’s mind. We imagine that our machine could use the compounds found in Martian minerals to create oxygen without the help of humans.

Solving the challenge of producing oxygen on Mars with this smart robot

The biggest challenge of producing oxygen on Mars is that you only have to use rocks, minerals and all the elements that are inside the red planet. This robot can turn Martian rocks into breathable air for humans. Oxygen is just the beginning for this chemist robot.

In this new study, published by the journal “Nature Synthesis”, it is stated:

Using a machine learning model derived from data based on basic principles and experimental investigations, this method automatically and instantly recognizes the optimized catalyst formula from among three million possible combinations.

Therefore, the Chinese researchers’ chemist robot can solve two big problems: it eliminates the need for an automatic measuring system to detect the result of combining substances with each other. These artificial intelligence robots are the best technology that can solve the problem of oxygen on Mars.

Michael Hecht works at an observatory in Massachusetts on the use of oxygen-containing resources on Mars called “MOXIE”. In his study, he notes that this robot can absorb small amounts of oxygen in the carbon dioxide-filled atmosphere of Mars. Although the current output is low, it can definitely be increased.