While the Curiosity rover is adept, it can't climb walls or scale the polar caps on Mars. To push the capabilities of crewless rovers on the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing some far out concepts for climbing robots that could explore hard-to-reach points on other worlds. was originally designed to do repairs on the International Space Station.
RoboSimian, a robot designed to maneuver on planets like Mars, can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. It stands here in California alongside engineer Brendan Chamberlain-Simon.
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