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NASA is no stranger to building robots, having created ones that are currently exploring Mars, traveling to the International Space Station and ones that look like inflatable "aliens." But now the ...
At the rate things are going in space exploration, it’s more than obvious that humanity will soon need robots that can do more than just trek on wheels on alien worlds. We might just have to scale ...
LEMUR can climb walls with special gripping feet, and is only one of a suite of climbing NASA robots. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has built many adventurous robots that can fly in space, land on alien ...
RoboSimian can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. In this photo, it stands on the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California, for field testing with engineer ...
The latest iteration of the four-legged LEMUR exploration robot clings to a test rock surface in Aaron Parness’ lab in a recent test of its microspine capabilities. NASA / JPL-Caltech The surface of ...
The crawling robot, Lemur, was built to help astronauts complete small jobs in space. “Lemur could be an astronauts pet monkey,” says JPL engineer Brett Kennedy who designed the 6-limbed robot. Lemur ...
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