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Intel and ESA launch first AI-enabled satellite, PhiSat-1 – Business Insider – Business Insider
PhiSat-1’s on-board AI can delete photos of Earth it thinks are too cloudy — and its tech could eventually change how we respond to disasters.
On September 2, a satellite the size of a cereal box took off for space.
Names PhiSat-1, its mission was to monitor polar ice and soil moisture, making it — at least superficially — a fairly unglamorous piece of kit.
But for the satellite’s creators — the European Space Agency (ESA), chip giant Intel, and Irish robotics company Ubotica — this launch represented months of work, and had been postponed by a failed rocket launch, two natural disasters, and a global pandemic.
It was also a huge technological…
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