NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon

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NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon

Moon Walk NASA is teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. With little fanfare, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers — including engineers, planetary scientists, and cognitive scientists — let loose a quadruped robot called Spirit at an altitude of 6,000 feet on the snowy and rocky hills of Oregon's Mount Hood. The project called Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments (LASSIE) is designed to teach the robot to adapt to…