November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... Trautner is part of the Lunar Lander Team in the Development Projects Group of the Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration Directorate, European Space Agency. He is leading the development of the PROSPECT instrumentation and sensors, including...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
...west of Oregon. Doing the legwork will be InVADER, an underwater robot that will monitor on a daily basis the activity around a deep...these gaps, and do so in such a way that the robot can achieve the same task hundreds of millions of kilometres away ...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... expedition-class planetary science vehicle capable of supporting human exploration sorties to both Phobos and Deimos as well as robotic telepresence exploration and sample return from the surface of Mars. Table 2. Mars Base Camp element descriptions...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
...a horizontal strip for the mouth - and limited movement capacity. As technical progress was made, however, humanoid robots started to get exponentially closer to humans. Within a couple of decades, they could mimic the expressions of various emotions...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... A key requirement to make this happen is the development of robotic technology for pre-deployment of assets on another planet, maintaining and...human concern: how much autonomy should we grant the robots that will share our daily lives in the future? ...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... would be the construction of habitats on the Moon or Mars. SpaceJustin, a humanoid upper body consisting of two Light-Weight Robot arms, two DLR-HIT Hands II, a torso and a head. serves as a development platform for human-centered telerobotics...
