NASA | There and Back Again: The Migration of Robotic Arm Technology from Mars to Earth [HD]

While robotic arm applications on Earth have existed for decades, it's only in the last few years that manipulation jobs have moved far outside the factory walls. We now look for arms capable of tasks such as ordinance disposal, underwater operations, and disaster response. It is in this last area that JPL will immediately apply all its lessons learned from the Mars surface missions to a terrestrial application, DARPA's Robotic Challenge ( www.theroboticchallenge.org ).

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