NASA’s Next Rovers Look Like Blobby Spiders


NASA’s Next Rovers Look Like Blobby Spiders
NASA is developing what could be the next generation of space exploring robots. And these robots are inspired by a baby toy of all things. They are made of cables and rods and are a type of structure known as a tensegrity structure, which gives them some unique properties that make them pretty robust. They kind of look like blobby spiders.

October 11, 2015 at 04:11PM
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