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Hyperion Rover, 1 km On One Command

Posted by Hemos on from the planning-ahead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Carnegie Mellon's next generation robot just finished its Chilean expedition and achieved a new planetary exploration benchmark, including being the first autonomous rover to cover 1 km on a single command. The other milestones from the Atacama Desert, Chile--the driest place on the planet--centered on over-the-horizon stereo navigation, sun-tracking for efficient solar panel pointing, and fault recovery. CMU shows pictures of the robot, called Hyperion, in action. One of its prime objectives was to plot courses that avoid shade, by finding the position of virtually everything in the solar system."

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  1. Re:It has to What Now? by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It also has to solve a rubix cube by drinking all the tea in China.

    I'm sure the article makes sense, though. It's just slashdot postings that read like fourth grade book reports.

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  2. Re:Not the driest place on Earth by Molina+the+Bofh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The driest place in Earth is its core, though I've never been there to check.

    Any questions ?

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  3. Re:Not the driest place on Earth by HaloZero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > The driest place on Earth is it's core...

    That's a fundamental paradox, as the Earth's core can not necessarily be ON itself (or it's crust). The driest place IN Earth, is, therefore, it's core.

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