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Meet the ‘dog’ robot headed to Mars – Big Think
Boston Dynamics’ notorious robot goes on an interplanetary mission.
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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