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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tests “Snake Robot” At California Ski Resort

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“Imagine a car driving autonomously, but there are no stop signs, no traffic signals, not even any roads. The robot has to figure out what the road is and try to follow it. Then it needs to go down a 100-foot drop and not fall.” –Rohan Thakker

Where do you take a model robotic developed to check out the vents of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus…a ski resort naturally! A group from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took their brand-new Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS Robot) to the slopes of a southern California where they assemble a “robot playground” to provide it try in the snow. Not sure if this innovation might be utilized in the ski market however its constantly cool to see brand-new methods of browsing snow. To learnt more about the EELS task GO HERE:

A group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing and checking a snake-like robotic called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). Inspired by a desire to come down vents on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and go into the subsurface ocean, this flexible robotic is being established to autonomously map, pass through, and check out formerly unattainable locations on Earth, the Moon, and other worlds in our planetary system.

The robotic has actually been tested in sandy, snowy, and icy environments, consisting of the Mars-like surface at JPL’s Mars Yard, a “robot playground” produced at a ski resort in the snowy mountains of Southern California, and even an indoor ice rink.

Because of the long interactions lag time in between Earth and deep space, EELS is developed to autonomously notice its environment, compute danger, travel, and collect information with yet-to-be-determined science instruments. When something fails, the objective is for the robotic to recuperate by itself, without human support.

The task group started building the very first model in 2019, and has actually been making continuous modifications. They’ve been checking out white, 3D-printed plastic screws for screening on looser surface like sand and soft snow, along with sharper, black metal screws for ice. In its existing form, the EELS 1.0 robotic weighs about 220 pounds (100 kgs) and is 13 feet (4 meters) long.

EELS is moneyed by the Office of Technology Infusion and Strategy at JPL in Southern California through an innovation accelerator program called JPL Next. JPL is handled for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California. The EELS group has actually dealt with a variety of university partners on the task, consisting of Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California, San Diego. The robotic is not presently part of any NASA objective.images from NASA/JPL-CalTech

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