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Friday February 11, 2005 7:36 am
Scientists Develop Scorpion-Like Bot For Planet Exploration
University of Bremen researcher Frank Kirchner has developed a creepy-moving scorpion-like robot, which is now being evaluated by NASA for use on Mars and other planets. Apparently walker-type bots like this one are able to get into the deep crevices that conventional wheel-based vehicles aren’t able to reach. It looks like something assembled from the scraps of a Terminator machine. But don’t just take my word for it, click here to see a movie with the robot in action.
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It looks pretty sweet but this isn’t exactly new technology. They’ve had these type of “walker” bots for quite sometime.
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Very cool
I’m guessing that the other “walker” type bots are not able to go on Mars…
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Creepy!! Too bad they can’t make larger bots though. That tiny thing is what has to explore great portions of Mars
Best of luck to the NASA team, however
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I dont know how far they expect it to travel considering how slow it walks.
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Chances are theyll drive it over to the “crevices” in a rover
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OK just picture that thing with a mounted machine gun… 50 years from now we’ll be fighting that and Asimo in the great robot wars…
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/
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we will see these in the next spider man.
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theres already bots that are goin to be used in Iraq :o
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