Ames Research Center
NASA research centre in California that hosts the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab and has supported autonomous robotics research.
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Google, NASA and USRA Launch Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
In May 2013, Google, NASA Ames Research Center and the Universities Space Research Association jointly established the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames facility, housing a D-Wave Two quantum processor to investigate whether quantum annealing could accelerate machine-learning tasks.
Zoe: Autonomous Astrobiology Field Robot for the Atacama Desert
In 2004, a team from Carnegie Mellon University's Field Robotics Center, NASA Ames Research Center, and the University of Tennessee deployed the Zoe rover autonomously across Chile's Atacama Desert, demonstrating robotic detection of subsurface biological life with relevance to astrobiology and future Mars exploration.