“Ice Worm to Tundra Ape” –NASA’s Robot Menagerie Bound for Alien Worlds

From Ice Worm to RoboSimian and Cliff-Climbing Mini-Helicopter, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has engineered an army of robots capable of driving on the plains and craters of Mars, explore cliffs, polar caps and other hard-to-reach places on the Red Planet and beyond.

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