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NASA Teams Up With Google to Build an A.I. Doctor for Astronauts in Space
UNITED STATES, AUG 10 – The Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant achieved diagnostic accuracy between 74% and 88% during tests, supporting autonomous astronaut health care on long-duration missions.
- NASA and Google are collaborating to create an AI-powered medical assistant designed to support astronauts' health management during extended space missions.
- They launched this project because future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond require autonomous medical care when real-time Earth communication is impossible due to distance and latency.
- CMO-DA uses Google's Vertex AI, trained on open-source models like Llama 3 and Mistral-3, and has been tested with clinical scenarios showing diagnostic accuracy up to 88 percent for ankle injuries.
- NASA owns the tool's source code and plans gradual improvements including integrating live biometric data such as ultrasounds and teaching the AI to understand space-specific health risks like microgravity effects.
- The assistant aims to support, not replace, human experts and could eventually enhance crew health management during deep space missions while benefiting remote healthcare on Earth.
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Remote space exploration poses unprecedented medical challenges that radically transform the current paradigms of care. NASA is forging a technological alliance with Google to design an autonomous medical assistant for Martian and lunar missions. The goal is to ensure effective care when astronauts evolve millions of kilometres away from any ground assistance. ... Read more NASA and Google develop a revolutionary IA medical assistant for future …
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