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New legged robots designed to explore planets as a team (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by very_well_lost to c/space
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While rovers have made incredible discoveries, their wheels can hold them back, and erratic terrain can mean damage. There is no replacing something like Perseverance, but sometimes rovers could use a leg up, and they could get that from a small swarm of four-legged robots.

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