Insect Robots For Mars Exploration

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday December 5, 2001 @06:34AM from the looking-more-deeply dept.

destructor writes "Thanks to these guys, I found this little robotic article. Aided by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts, flying insect robots are looking at a life on our "little red planet", Mars in order to procure some atmospheric information and samples. Since conventional aircraft are unable to precisely navigate the Mars surface due to very thin air qualities, the robots actually have the ability to "move only their wings rapidly - while the body flies slowly", to ease sample collections." Space.com is carrying a piece on this.

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Interesting quote by Anonymous Coward · 2001-12-05 06:44 · Score: 0, Troll

Blockquoth the article:

These robots will have sophisticated computers on-board, running the embedded version of the Linux operating system.

I wonder which embedded distro they plan to use?