May/June 2008
Boldly Going Back
An unmanned lunar rover could be the next to roam the moon.
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Moonbot: Red Rover (above) is a prototype robotic vehicle being built at Carnegie Mellon University.
Credit: Frank Walsh |
As early as next year, Red Rover, a prototype robotic vehicle being built at Carnegie Mellon University, may be sending back stunning images and video from the moon. William Whittaker, the CMU professor whose driverless SUV triumphed on a course of urban and suburban roads in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Urban Challenge last year, is using the same technologies in the one-meter-wide moon-bot (left, at a CMU test site).
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