While rovers have made incredible discoveries, their wheels can hold them back, and erratic terrain can mean damage. There is no replacing something like Perseverance, but sometimes rovers could use a leg up, and they could get that from a small swarm of four-legged robots.
New legged robots designed to explore planets as a team
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/new-legged-robots-designed-to-explore-planets-as-a-team/
8 Comments
messem10@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Issue there is how does it handle loose fill material or sand/dust in its joints? That’d wear it down quick or result in it getting into an unrecoverable situation. (Wheeled rovers have a larger contact area and less likely to sink into sand.)
Sanctus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
According to the article they would be supplemental to the rovers, not as a replacement. So I'd imagine they'd be able to retreat into some sort of storage on the rover where they could hopefully be air cleaned automatically.
CharlieDavidson1@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 3y
messem10@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
No.
CharlieDavidson1@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
CharlieDavidson1@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 3y
knexcar@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
What does this have to do with the walking space robots? Are they going to be part of a space anime that will end up in that subreddit?
messem10@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Its a troll/asshole who made an account here solely to whine and complain.
CharlieDavidson1@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3y
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y