A robotic chemist has discovered and produced an oxygen-producing catalyst from Martian meteorites. The same procedure could one day be used to provide oxygen for astronauts on Mars.
Yi Luo at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China and his colleagues have developed a fully automated robot chemist that analysed the chemical makeup of five Martian meteorites and used artificial intelligence (AI) to find and test an oxygen-producing catalyst made from six elements it found in the meteorites.
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