NASA has been working for a long time to find life on other planers and settle human beings on planets other than Earth. During this efforts NASA has not only sent different vehicles to moon and mars, but it has also developed new kinds of devices to help it in space exploration. Following this dream, the agency has now built a new robot that could help it in its cause to settle mankind on the moon in the future. The name of this new machine is Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot or RASSOR. With this high-tech robot NASA will not only be able to dig up soil and rocks on the moon, it will also be able to transfer the mineral deposits to a processing unit for automated fuel, ice and water extraction.
Since the landscape of lunar surface is uneven, NASA has designed RASSOR as a multi-purpose robot, which makes it effective and versatile at the same time. For instance besides digging and transferring minerals this robot can also climb up obstacles in rocky landscapes like big stones. As far as the size of RASSOR is concerned, it is just 2.5-foot-tall and its weighs about 100 pound. The multifunctional “legs” of RASSOR not only works as its wheels, but also act as a digging tool.
However, at this point in time RASSOR is still in the development stages as a prototype and its size is the biggest challenge. The first water-seeking mission to the moon is planned for 2017 and engineers from NASA have got enough time to make their designs even better. In addition to this, NASA also has plans to start testing a second version of RASSOR during 2014.
Source: PSFK
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