{"id":148180,"date":"2022-10-14T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-future-of-space-construction-may-have-just-been-revolutionized-by-a-new-walking-robot"},"modified":"2022-10-14T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:23:59","slug":"the-future-of-space-construction-may-have-just-been-revolutionized-by-a-new-walking-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-future-of-space-construction-may-have-just-been-revolutionized-by-a-new-walking-robot","title":{"rendered":"The future of space construction may have just been revolutionized by a new walking robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-space-construction-may-have-just-been-revolutionized-by-a-new-walking-robot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The E-Walker has been tried and tested on Earth, but it\u2019s yet to prove itself in space.<\/p>\n<p>Large construction projects in space may be one step closer to reality, thanks to a new walking space robot. Researchers have designed the E-Walker \u2014 a state-of-the-art walking robot \u2014 to take on the behemoth task of space construction. A robot prototype has already been tested here on Earth by assembling a 25m Large Aperture Space Telescope. The telescope would usually be built in space, which is the E-Walker\u2019s future duty.<\/p>\n<p>Doubling up on its potential duties, a smaller-scale prototype of the same robot has also been created and shows promise for large construction applications on Earth, such as maintenance of wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s findings were presented in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>IStock\/Vitaly Kusaylo.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have designed the E-Walker \u2013 a state-of-the-art walking robot \u2013 to take on the behemoth task of space construction. A robot prototype has already been tested here on Earth by assembling a 25m Large Aperture Space Telescope. The telescope would usually be built in space, which is the E-Walker\u2019s future duty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-future-of-space-construction-may-have-just-been-revolutionized-by-a-new-walking-robot\">Continue reading \u201cThe future of space construction may have just been revolutionized by a new walking robot\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The E-Walker has been tried and tested on Earth, but it\u2019s yet to prove itself in space. Large construction projects in space may be one step closer to reality, thanks to a new walking space robot. Researchers have designed the E-Walker \u2014 a state-of-the-art walking robot \u2014 to take on the behemoth task of space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148180","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}