Robot Armada On Titan
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 18:49
in Astronomy & Space
Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (Caltech, to you) says a paradigm shift in planetary exploration is coming - and it involves space robots. Fink and a team at Caltech, the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Arizona are developing software along with a robotic test bed that can mimic a field geologist or astronaut - the software, they say, will allow a robot to think on its own. read more