Ingenuity on Mars: NASA's Semi-Autonomous Robot and Why It's Special

Ingenuity demonstrates the ways in which the field of Artificial Intelligence has already improved in leaps and bounds. It should be noted that the helicopter is not entirely free from human intervention; it can be controlled when it needs to be. Ingenuity does have a sequenced engine and responds to commands from Earth, but for the duration that the robot is actively carrying out those commands, it runs autonomously. Whilst travelling from A to B, Ingenuity's guidance software takes over and will execute the helicopter's take off, landing and course without the need of human intervention, modelling a'half-house' AI system. The helicopter's semi-autonomous nature allows the device to be more pragmatic and address any threats or challenges that may arise: blockades and restraints to name but two.