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Hopping is hope for robot safety

Posted: 24 Aug 2010  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: robot  moon  Lunar X Prize 

[Summary of tips] The wheeled robot rover, Spirit , is stuck in a Mars sand trap, pointing out to engineers that the ability to hop could save robots in such situations. According to NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, if the Spirit could hop, it could have just jumped back onto solid gro......
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