27 jun 2026
NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor
NASA researchers are testing an AI clinical decision support system to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical symptoms during deep-space missions. The Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) is powered by a Red Hat-backed open source tool called RamaLama, designed to simplify how developers run, pull, and serve AI models. While it's no Star Trek-esque Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) quite yet, it could be a boon to ailing astros far from home. Earlier this year, NASA decided to bring Crew-11 back from the International Space Station (ISS) early because of a medical concern.
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