Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU), having made field trips to Mount Hood in 2023 and 2024, recently spent five days teaching quadruped robots to walk on the sands of Mars and beyond from the sands of New Mexico for future science exploration on other celestial bodies.

Oregon Quadruped Robot Training For Outer Space Missions

OSU researchers who spent five days conducting experiments this month at White Sands National Park in New Mexico are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars.

The LASSIE Project (Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments) includes engineers, cognitive scientists, geoscientists, and planetary scientists from several institutions, including OSU and the NASA Johnson Space Center. NASA funds it, and the trip

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