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4 NASA engineers testing the Hedgehog bot in the C-9 aircraft
© NASA / JPL-Caltech / Stanford
... on different surfaces with a variety of textures: sandy, rough, hilly, smooth, icy, soft and brittle. The engineers are currently working on the control technology for the robot. Ultimately, it should also be able to move autonomously on distant celestial bodies - without instructions from Earth.
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