{"id":124069,"date":"2021-06-21T21:22:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-built-a-walking-mars-rover-that-can-climb-steep-hills"},"modified":"2021-06-21T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T04:22:43","slug":"scientists-built-a-walking-mars-rover-that-can-climb-steep-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/scientists-built-a-walking-mars-rover-that-can-climb-steep-hills","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Built a Walking Mars Rover That Can Climb Steep Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-built-a-walking-mars-rover-that-can-climb-steep-hills.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany built a small quadrupedal robot meant to leap around on the surface of the Moon, much like the Apollo astronauts did half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now SpaceBok, named after the bounding springbok antelope, is getting a Mars upgrade \u2014 on the Red Planet, it will have to weather much stronger gravity than on the Moon and face more treacherous terrain, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-do-you-make-a-robot-walk-on-mars-its-a-steep-challenge\/\" class=\"\"><em>Wired<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is a strong one. If it were to ever land on Mars, a walking robot could explore terrain that has so far been off limits to wheeled rovers \u2014 and maybe even the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/drone-explore-martian-caves\" class=\"\">planet\u2019s mysterious caves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany built a small quadrupedal robot meant to leap around on the surface of the Moon, much like the Apollo astronauts did half a century ago. Now SpaceBok, named after the bounding springbok antelope, is getting a Mars upgrade \u2014 on the Red [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}