{"id":93128,"date":"2019-07-04T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-is-the-most-powerful-robot-arm-ever-installed-on-a-mars-rover"},"modified":"2019-07-04T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:42:44","slug":"this-is-the-most-powerful-robot-arm-ever-installed-on-a-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-is-the-most-powerful-robot-arm-ever-installed-on-a-mars-rover","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Most Powerful Robot Arm Ever Installed on a Mars Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-most-powerful-robot-arm-ever-installed-on-a-mars-rover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, engineers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a> wrapped up the installation of the Mars 2020 rover\u2019s 2.1-meter-long robot arm. This is the most powerful arm ever installed on a Mars rover. Even though the Mars 2020 rover shares much of its design with <a href=\"https:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/robots\/curiosity\/?utm_source=spectrum\">Curiosity<\/a>, the new arm was redesigned to be able to do much more complex science, drilling into rocks to collect samples that can be stored for later recovery.<\/p>\n<p>JPL is well known for <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/aerospace\/robotic-exploration\/planetary-rovers-are-we-alone\">developing robots that do amazing work in incredibly distant and hostile environments<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/robots\/spirit\/?utm_source=spectrum\">Opportunity<\/a> Mars rover, to name just one example, had a 90-day planned mission but remained operational for 5,498 days in a robot unfriendly place full of dust and wild temperature swings where even the most basic maintenance or repair is utterly impossible. (Its twin rover, <a href=\"http:\/\/robots.ieee.org\/robots\/spirit\/?utm_source=spectrum\">Spirit<\/a>, operated for 2,269 days.) <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the process behind designing robotic systems that are capable of feats like these, we talked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov\/people\/Matthew_Robinson\/\">Matt Robinson<\/a>, one of the engineers who designed the Mars 2020 rover\u2019s new robot arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, engineers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wrapped up the installation of the Mars 2020 rover\u2019s 2.1-meter-long robot arm. This is the most powerful arm ever installed on a Mars rover. Even though the Mars 2020 rover shares much of its design with Curiosity, the new arm was redesigned to be able to do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93128","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\/93128","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}