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Carolina Martinez
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
(Phone: 818/354-9382)
RELEASE: 01-208
Tiny bulldozer rovers may some day dish up the dirt and
pack it in on Mars. The scoop-and-dump design of a prototype
bulldozer rover being developed by NASA engineers mimics that
of a bulldozer and dump truck.
"When people hear about the work we do, they sometimes think
we are just talking science fiction," said Wayne Schober,
manager for advanced robotics surface systems at JPL. "We
worked on some of the most advanced robotic vehicle designs of
the mid-1980s, such as those that enabled the two-armed
coordinated robots for the International Space Station, the
Mars Pathfinder Rover and the rovers about to explore Mars. We
are not all fun and games. We mean business."
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