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NASA Robots and Rovers At Play In the Desert

Posted by timothy on from the not-enslaving-robots-no-sirree dept.

Geoffrey.landis writes "Robots and rovers will be running around in the desert in the NASA Desert RATS ('Research and Technology Studies') test in Arizona, including the heavy-lift rover 'All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer,' or ATHLETE. (See videos from newscientist.com). Some NASA robots from an earlier field test of robotic lunar excavators can be seen on video from the NASA page."

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  1. Desert Research and Technology Studies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shouldn't that be "DRAT"s?

  2. Predictable ending by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Martha, git me gun. I spotted one of them metallic Martian dogs again sniffing 'round a cactus. Everyone knows Martian dog pee is pure poison."

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    1. Re:Predictable ending by causality · · Score: 2, Funny

      And here I thought Martian dog pee could be refined into a motor fuel. My mistake.

      Well yeah, but you wouldn't drink motor fuel. It's pure poison!

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  3. Re:Dune coons by Paracelcus · · Score: 2, Funny

    But will they become self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time on August 29th and threaten humanity?

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  4. Re:Sped Up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is because the control software is written in Ruby

  5. Re:Sped Up by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    All these films are sped up.

    That's so you can finish watching them before their server is slashdotted.
         

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  6. Exactly like the 1960s by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Of course NASA did a lot of desert work in the 1960s. They had to create all those fake moon-landing films and photographs they released in the early 1970s.

  7. Dept of A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S. by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly, NASA employs a Department of ACRONYMS:

    Artfully Coded & Readable Operative Names, Yielding Mnemonic Sentences.