NASA develops weird new rovers

I have my doubts about Nasa using such robots as mentioned above, Nasa however does look at all the possibilities of research and this most likely is being looked at, Heck they were looking at a small flying robot that mimiced a large dragonfly that would fly around the red planet and it would return to its rover base to recharge and return data back to earth but that idea like many that Nasa looks at has been put on the wayside and most likely will never happen so I forsee the same thing happening with this idea as well, Regards; TFF

What a coincidence. I saw this on the telly last night Scientists at the University of California Berkeley are convinced they are offering a breakthrough in robot design. Their study of living organisms has offered insights which they’ve adapted to the world’s first robotic cockroach, or, Robo Roach. Graham discovers how the ingenuity of nature may help develop technology that could finally bring about the robot revolution. Link with episode

I look forward to the day when all of NASA,s Ships, probes and robots will look pleasing to the common man,s eye. Engineers say good looks are not needed, cost effective, or necessary . But to get John Q Public behind the space program again they will have to first sell the ideas. And that means pleasing to the eye as well as function.