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floating serenely on a mountain lake

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high in the central Andes of Chile

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NASA's prototype planetary Lake Lander

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is in reality testing adaptive robotic

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systems project leader dr. Nathalie

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Cabral explains her team's work on this

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smart robot so to explore laguna negra

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we have the planetary late lender it

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will have an adaptive system it will be

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able to understand its environment and

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act upon what changes in the environment

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on its own so we are basically

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transferring the power of decision to

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the probe and past exploration we were

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limited to talking to a robot once or

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twice a day in the best-case scenarios

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so there is a large amount of time that

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is not being used for the mission we

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started to develop what we call adaptive

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systems and basically that was for the

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robot to decide if what it was seeing in

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the field was relevant to the mission

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objectives even if it was outside of a

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plan the robot was capable of saying I

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need to go to point B but what I'm

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seeing here right now seems to be more

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important and more relevant and I need

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