Last night's chat with Paulo Younce, a robotics engineer at the Jet Propulsion laboratory in California, gave great insight in to new typrs of robots being planned for future missions. Highlighting Curiosity, Paulo gave a good rundown of the science that has been accomplished in the short time since landing on Mars. He also gave some great tips on how to prepare for a career in robotics.
Because of bandwidth limitations during our chat, we were unable to present the three video clips that went along with the presentation. I've posted these below. If you were not at the chat, look it up in the chat archive to learn more about these robots.
First is the Lemur robot, which can climb a wall or cliff.
Next, is a spider type that may oneday maintain a space telescope mirror.
And finally, a jumping robot. Wait for it....
Next week we hear about Life on Exo-Planets, a prerequisite chat if you are taking the Life On Other Planets VSE. But it is open for everyone one who is interested, whether you are in the VSE or not! So come and have a great time in the INSPIRE Cafe, open at 6pm and then stay for the chat at 8pm (all Central Time).
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