The short-lived robots used the low-gravity conditions on Ryugu to hop across the asteroid’s surface for a day to beam back pictures to Earth. What if we nuked an asteroid? Since the mission’s ...
In 2018, Japan made history by landing two cookie jar-sized jumping rovers onto the rocky asteroid Ryugu about 280 million km (170 million miles) away from Earth. The short-lived robots used the ...
Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity environments, an advance that could revolutionise the exploration of ...
Robot cat built to always stick landing could revolutionise asteroid mining, scientists say - Scientists test robot in microgravity simulation to confirmed effectiveness ...
Chinese scientists have built a cat-inspired robot designed to adjust its posture and stick its landing even in low-gravity environments, an advance that could revolutionise the exploration of ...
Scientists checked whether the robot and its newly developed control system could potentially manoeuvre in low-gravity celestial environments like asteroids. Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft snapped ...