Science fiction is coming to life in NASA's latest space-exploring robot dubbed the Shapeshifter, a 'flying amphibious robot' that researchers hope can roll, fly, float and swim as it explores distant worlds. A team of researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is in the process
Science fiction is coming to life in NASA's latest space-exploring robot dubbed the Shapeshifter, a"flying amphibious robot" that researchers hope can roll, fly, float and swim as it explores distant worlds.
NASA described the robot as"a contraption that looks like a drone encased in an elongated hamster wheel" which can roll and then split in two, according to a statement. Once split apart,"the two halves rise on small propellers, effectively becoming flying drones for aerial exploration." While still in its earliest stages of development by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts research program, Ali Agha of the Jet Propulsion Lab hopes to see the mini robots explore Saturn's moon, Titan, one of the only other places known to have liquid on its surface.
"So we thought about how to create a system that is versatile and capable of traversing different types of terrain but also compact enough to launch on a rocket," Agha added.
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