HONG KONG: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is going to work with developers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University to make a special robot that will be able to operate on comets with very weak gravitational fields.
The United States space agency and the universities have planned to develop a robot that can beat the problem of microgravity and whose movements look like hedgehog. Apart from walking, the robot is able to hop and flip over.
While providing information on the new robot, NASA said, “Traditional Mars rovers, for example, roll around on wheels, and they can’t operate upside-down. But on a small body, such as an asteroid or a comet, the low-gravity conditions and rough surfaces make traditional driving all the more hazardous”.
According to reports, the Hedgehog was tested in simulated microgravity conditions and it performed well. So, there are high chances that the space agency will use the robot as a small space object explorer in near future.
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