"Right now Mars is entirely inhabited by robots, and one of them is artificially intelligent enough to make its own decisions about what to zap with its laser."
— Space exploration

January 1, 1970

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Raymond Francis, member of a Jet Propulsion Laboratory team tasked with giving the Mars Curiosity rover the ability to independently select which geological features it will examine with its ChemCam laser-and-micro-imaging instrument, as quoted in "The Curiosity rover and other spacecraft are learning to think for themselves: Autonomous science-bots will make it easier to explore our solar system … and beyond." Popular Science. June 21, 2017.