9.04.2005

 

Robotic space penguin

Robotic space penguin to hop across the Moon: "The first lunar colonists may not be a humans but compact robots capable of jumping more than a kilometre in a single bound.

Engineers at US defence contractor Raytheon, in Massachusetts, have developed a robot, dubbed the Lunar Penguin, that could one day bounce across perilous craters and imposing mountains on the Moon's craggy surface using a set of compact rocket boosters."

Comments:
It's pretty hard to imagine a lunar mission any time in the near future.
 
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