SETI Allen Telescope Array Deploys AI Agents to Search for Extraterrestrial Signals

Located in Northern California, the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array has begun using AI agents to steer telescopes and analyze incoming radio signals in real time. Built on the Nvidia Holoscan platform with hardware processing throughput of up to 2.4 Tbps, the system compresses data processing from weeks to hours and has demonstrated real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The research team next plans to test open-source solutions running locally at the edge for future sensor deployments on the far side of the Moon.