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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) field center in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. It is administered by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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…California Institute of Technology researchers, conceptualized a transforming robot. Caltech today announced the Multi-Modality Mobility Morphobot, or M4, which now could be part of future NASA Mars Rover missions. The M4 Morphobot is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for artificial intelligence at the edge and robotics. The institute called the robot the M4 because it can fly, drive, walk, and do eight permutations of motion through a combination of its skills. “It grew in the number of functions that we wanted to do,” said Gharib, a professor of aeronautics and bioinspired engineering at Caltech, in a blog post. “When…
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…even ride a skateboard. Developed by a team at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST), LEO is the first robot that uses multi-joint legs and propeller-based thrusters to achieve a fine degree of control over its balance. A paper about the LEO robot was published online last week and was featured on the October 2021 cover of Science Robotics. LEO inspired by nature “We drew inspiration from nature. Think about the way birds are able to flap and hop to navigate telephone lines,” said Soon-Jo Chung, corresponding author and Bren Professor of Aerospace and Control and Dynamical Systems…
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…which is administered by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for NASA, also had to make sure that Ingenuity and Perseverance could survive the 293 million-mile (471 million-km) trip to Mars and land gently. They built on the experience of Mars landings since Viking 1 in 1975. “The Mars Helicopter project has gone from ‘blue sky’ feasibility study to workable engineering concept to achieving the first flight on another world in a little over six years,” said Michael Watkins, director of JPL. “That this project has achieved such a historic first is testimony to the innovation and doggedness of our…
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…Ken Farley, project scientist for the Perseverance rover at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif. “We'll spend the next couple of hundred sols executing our first science campaign looking for interesting rock outcrop along this 2-km (1.24-mi.) patch of crater floor before likely heading north and then west toward Jezero Crater's fossil river delta.” While Perseverance conducts these short drives, Ingenuity may land near the rover's current location or its next anticipated parking spot. The helicopter could perform aerial observations of rover science targets, potential rover routes, and inaccessible features while also capturing stereo images for digital elevation maps. NASA said it…
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…the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. Another successful part of this mission were the 12 flights of the Ingenuity helicopter, the first powered flights on Mars.