On December 27, at Baidu reate 2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference), Baidu founder Robin Li said that Baidu's AI capabilities can be used for the aerospace industry, and Baidu's unmanned vehicles can drive to the moon in the future.
At the conference, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, and Ouyang Ziyuan, a famous astrochemist and geochemist, the first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration project and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, held a dialogue.
Robin Li said that the two major capabilities of perception and control possessed by AI will have a wide range of application space in the aerospace industry, which can make the future lunar research stations more intelligent, and can also be applied to unattended scientific exploration and the development and utilization of resources. ”
On December 17, Baidu announced that it has reached a strategic partnership with China's lunar exploration and space project, becoming a "global strategic partner for artificial intelligence in China's lunar exploration and aerospace engineering", and the two sides will carry out cooperation in space technology and artificial intelligence technology in the field of deep space exploration, including lunar exploration and planetary exploration.
It is reported that Baidu has previously had a precedent for cooperation with China's lunar exploration space project. In addition, this year, China's first Mars rover "Zhu Rong" landed on Mars, when Baidu and China's Mars Exploration Project jointly released the world's first rover digital person.
