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NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor
NASA researchers are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA), an offline AI clinical decision support system designed to help astronauts
Key takeaways
- CMO-DA transitioned from a cloud-dependent model to a fully disconnected edge deployment.
- RamaLama provides the engine to run both LLMs and VLMs for complex medical reasoning and image analysis.
- The system has yet to leave Earth and is currently being tested on a terrestrial twin of the Spaceborne Computer.
- Once validated on Earth, the CMO-DA will be demonstrated to NASA leadership for further evaluation.
NASA researchers are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA), an offline AI clinical decision support system designed to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical symptoms during deep-space missions. Powered by Red Hat's open-source tool RamaLama, the system runs locally on a terrestrial twin of the HPE Spaceborne Computer, allowing it to process text and visual data without needing an active connection to Earth.
In their words
“RamaLama provides the engine to run both large language models (LLMs) for complex medical reasoning and Vision Language Models (VLMs) for image-based symptom analysis”
By the numbers
- #3
- Iteration of HPE's Spaceborne project aboard the ISS
How it unfolded
- NASA brought Crew-11 back early due to medical concern
- CMO-DA runs on a terrestrial twin of Spaceborne Computer
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Common questions
- What happened with Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant?
- CMO-DA transitioned from a cloud-dependent model to a fully disconnected edge deployment.
- Where can I read the original report?
- Read the full report at the_register.
