Meet the ‘dog’ robot headed to Mars – Big Think

While Mars rovers have been and are unquestionably amazing, they’re not the most adaptable, or speedy, little bots Curiosity, for example, rolls across flat-ish parts of the red planet’s surface at a decidedly un-blistering .09 miles and hour. That’s about a third as fast as most people walk.
At the December 14, 2020 (virtual) meeting of American Geophysical Union (AGU), held online this year, NASA/JPL-Caltech announced a new family of robotic red-planet explorers: “Mars Dogs.”
They’re calling it…

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