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The origami wheel that could explore lunar caves
Beneath the moon's cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar ...
In the new year, the value of lunar exploration is being reassessed, with the Moon seen as a hub for deep space exploration ...
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Korea tests an ultra-rugged robot built for the Moon’s caves
South Korean engineers are stress testing a new kind of lunar robot that is designed to survive the Moon’s most hostile ...
You can’t reinvent the wheel, it is often said. To which researchers from Seoul National University, Harvard University, and Hankook Tire and Technology Co. go, “hold my beer.” This origami wheel has ...
Exploring the Moon’s surface is challenging enough, but reaching what lies beneath it is even harder. Deep pits and long lava ...
On the 18th, KAIST announced that a team led by Professor Lee Dae-Young of its Space Research Institute & Department of ...
DAEJEON, SOUTH KOREA – A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the ...
Think of origami and you may imagine delicate paper cranes or fortune tellers. But the art of folding paper to create 3D shapes has been used to make a flexible robot. Roboticists have shown off two ...
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Moon rovers with origami-inspired wheels set to revolutionize lunar exploration missions
In a recent study published in Science Robotics, a research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ...
If you thought origami was just a delicate, ornamental art, then come meet these robots. These (deliberately) deformable little wheelers can climb over obstacles, squeeze under crevasses, and ...
A joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Unmanned Exploration ...
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