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A collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Duke University has developed a robotic eye examination system, and the National Institutes of Health has awarded the researchers $1.2 million to expand and refine the system.
A team of human experts on Earth is on Mars rovers telling them what to do. However, robots available on lander missions to moons orbiting Saturn or Jupiter are beyond reach to receive early commands from Earth.