‘Mini Rover’ can wiggle and crawl its way across tricky terrain on other planets

Rovers exploring planetary surfaces like Mars can get stuck in soft, steep soils. But the “Mini Rover,” a scaled-down 3D-printed model of a NASA rover concept built and tested by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has a gait that allows it to crawl and successfully conquer tricky terrain.

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