Rover Gathers Rocks on Active Volcano to Simulate Moon Mission - Gizmodo

The four-day test involved a fleet of robots that included other rovers, a stationary lander, and a centipede-like crawler.

While working out of a hotel room in Italy, astronaut Thomas Reiter commanded a four-wheeled robot to pick up rocks from the surface of an active volcano on the Sicilian east coast, and he did so whi… [+3859 chars]

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