Collaborate Disseminate
Back in May, China became just the third nation to land on the surface of Mars as it touched down with its Tianwen-1 probe. Packed aboard was the country’s first interplanetary rover, named Zhurong, which can be seen and heard making its very movements… Continue reading China shares sights and sounds of its rover’s first moves on Mars
ESA has awarded a contract to Milrem Robotics for a series of projects to provide planetary rovers with a higher degree of autonomy by using the capabilities that Milrem developed for its line of modular military robots.Continue ReadingCategory: Space,… Continue reading Milrem Robotics to apply military robotic tech to planetary rovers
At this point, somebody taking the motors out of a cheap “hoverboard” and using them to power a scooter or remote controlled vehicle isn’t exactly a new idea. But in …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Mecanum Wheels For Hoverboard Motors
Inspired by battle-hardened military robots, [Engineering Juice] wanted to build his own remote controlled rover that could deliver live video from the front lines. But rather than use an off-the-shelf …read more Continue reading Scratch Built Tracked Robot Reporting for Duty
Sometimes the best way to figure out how something works is to make a model of it. 3D-modeling software makes it possible to do the job in silico, and sometimes …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed Scale Model of Perseverance Rover Seems as Complicated as the Real One
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to send a tiny transforming ball-shaped robot to the lunar surface. Once it arrives, the device will gather data for the development of a future crewed exploration rover.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading JAXA to send tiny transforming robot to the lunar surface
They might not be the hoverboards we were promised in Back to the Future II, but the popular electric scooters that have commandeered the name are exciting pieces of tech …read more Continue reading Hoverboard Turned Heavy Duty Remote Control Rover
Mars is getting to be a busy place, what with helicopters buzzing around and rovers roving all about the place. Now it’s set to get a bit more crowded, with …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: May 2, 2021
NASA has made history today, conducting the very first powered flight on another planet. The Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully took to the Red Planet skies for a brief jaunt, which will hopefully be the first of several.Continue ReadingCategory: S… Continue reading NASA’s Mars Helicopter makes historic first flight
It’s always fun to look over aerial and satellite maps of places we know, seeing a perspective different from our usual ground level view. We lose that context when it’s …read more Continue reading Putting Perseverance Rover’s View Into Satellite View Context