AI Spacesuits Turn Astronauts Into Cyborg Biologists

wired.com — Equipped with wearable AI systems and digital eyes that see what human eyes can't, space explorers of the future could be not just astronauts, but "cyborg astrobiologists.” That’s the vision of a research team led by Patrick McGuire, a University of Chicago geoscientist who’s developed algorithms that recognize signs of life in a barren landscape.