Without much fanfare, artificial intelligence left Earth for the first time. To be more precise, the Earth’s orbit. As it is known, the Rashid moon rover, developed in the UAE and launched in December, will deliver an artificial intelligence system to the moon.

The AI ​​was created by experts at Mission Control Space Services (MCSS) in Canada. It is known that artificial intelligence will become an important decision-making tool on the rover. To be more precise, it is about route planning.

Each image pixel received by the rover and lander will be classified as a specific terrain type. This result will then be sent back to Earth and used by scientists and engineers at our office in Ottawa as well as other Canadian universities to help decide where the rover should go. Future missions will take humans out of the loop once engineers are confident that AI knows how to distinguish between different minerals and distinguish mission-critical elements like rocks and craters.

Among other things, the artificial intelligence will save the limited bandwidth of satellites when communicating with Earth, since the rover will transmit only the data, images and videos that scientists need.

It is known that artificial intelligence will not live for long: the lunar rover is designed to work in only one lunar day, that is, in 29 Earth days. The rover cannot survive a moonlit night with its very low temperatures. Rashid should reach the moon in April.