As experts like Elon Musk and Bill Gates have been alarming, the Artificial intelligence is rapidly occupying all spaces previously exclusive to the human race.
Brilliant minds around the world are predicting that in the coming years we will have robots and AI systems working on absolutely everything. However, it is now possible to see these predictions coming true.
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Recently, researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China, led by Professor Jun Jiang, tested a robot capable of nothing more or less, “creating” oxygen from scratch.
Named M3GAN, the robot used materials collected from the surface of Mars to generate the gas. Could it be the missing premise for the beginning of human colonization on the Red Planet?
Astronomers from around the world, as well as scientists from other areas interested in space exploration, have “He racked his brains” to establish tangible protocols for maintaining human colonies on Mars.
However, scientists are faced with fundamental issues, such as Martian gravity, the high incidence of solar radiation and, of course, the lack of oxygen on the surface of our space neighbor.
Now, according to the study published by Professor Jun Jiang in the journal Síntese da Natureza, it is possible to glimpse the creation of oxygen from fragments of the soil of Mars.
How was the robot able to create oxygen?
M3GAN, also called R3, is a conventional, non-humanoid robot that resembles a “refrigerator with arms”, as reported by some scientists who work with it. (see the image below)
(Image: Jun Jiang/University of Science and Technology of China/reproduction)
To make it capable of generating oxygen, scientists placed pieces of meteorites in one of the robot's compartments. With this, the machine used acids to dilute the rocks and began to make combinations until reaching O2.
In total, R3 made around 3.7 million combinations, until it identified water residues (H2O) contained in Martian rocks and began the process of extracting the oxygen contained there.
The entire process was carried out without human interaction and in a controlled environment. Upon returning to the M3GAN room at the end of the tests, the scientists noticed that the robot was capable of producing 60 grams of oxygen per hour for every one square meter of Martian land.
Although incredible, the experiment carried out by the Chinese team is not unique. Through the Perseverance rover, which is on a reconnaissance mission on the soil of Mars, the NASA it is also looking for ways to generate oxygen on the planet.
According to information from the North American space agency, the small robot has already managed to generate oxygen from air samples from Mars. The Red Planet is known to be rich in water and ice, materials from which it is possible to extract the gas essential to human life.
Experiments like those involving the use of M3GAN and Perseverance are very important for the future of space exploration.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to oxygen, these projects can accelerate the extraction of other gases, minerals and other substances essential for human survival outside planet Earth.
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