{"id":23822,"date":"2016-03-21T16:16:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T23:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/robot-built-landing-pad-could-pave-the-way-for-construction-on-mars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:05","slug":"robot-built-landing-pad-could-pave-the-way-for-construction-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/robot-built-landing-pad-could-pave-the-way-for-construction-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"Robot-Built Landing Pad Could Pave the Way for Construction on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-built-landing-pad-could-pave-the-way-for-construction-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A robot has built a prototype launch-and-landing pad in Hawaii, potentially helping pave the way for automated construction projects on the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/topics\/robots\/\">robotic<\/a> rover, named Helelani, assembled the pad on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island late last year, putting together 100 pavers made of locally available material in an effort to prove out technology that could do similar work in space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction project is really unique. Instead of concrete for the landing pad, we\u2019re using lunar and Mars material, which is exactly like the material we have here on the Big Island \u2014 basalt,\u201d Rob Kelso, executive director of the Pacific International Space Center for Exploration (PISCES) in Hawaii, told Hawaiian news outlet <a href=\"http:\/\/bigislandnow.com\/2015\/10\/28\/pisces-unveils-basalt-landing-pad\/\">Big Island Now<\/a>. PISCES partnered with NASA on the project, which is part of a larger program called Additive Construction with Mobile Emplacement, or ACME for short. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/16851-most-audacious-mars-missions-ever.html\">The Boldest Mars Missions in History<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/32293-pisces-robot-builds-launch-landing-pad.html\">http:\/\/www.space.com\/32293-pisces-robot-builds-launch-landing-pad.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robot has built a prototype launch-and-landing pad in Hawaii, potentially helping pave the way for automated construction projects on the moon and Mars. The robotic rover, named Helelani, assembled the pad on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island late last year, putting together 100 pavers made of locally available material in an effort to prove out technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67945,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23822\/revisions\/67945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}