NASA wants to build a swarm of tiny, wedge-shaped robots to look for life on faraway worlds - ZME Science

How to look for life on unfriendly bodies like Europa or Enceladus? Just make a bunch of swimmy robots and have them look for it.

Ethan Schaler, a robotics mechanical engineer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, loves the idea of exploring new worlds. He also loves acronyms, based on his project called Se… [+5211 chars]

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