DuAxel: A NASA Prototype Rover to Explore the Toughest Terrain
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- A flexible rover that has both ability to travel long distances and rappel down hard-to-reach areas of scientific interest has undergone a field test in the Mojave Desert in California to showcase its versatility. Composed of two Axel robots, DuAxel is designed to explore crater walls, pits, scarps, vents and other extreme terrain on the moon, Mars and beyond.
This technology demonstration developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California showcases the robot’s ability to split in two and send one of its halves -- a two-wheeled Axle robot -- over an otherwise inaccessible slope, using a tether as support and to supply power.
The rappelling Axel can then autonomously seek out areas to study, safely overcome slopes and rocky obstacles, and then return to dock with its other half before driving to another destination. Although the rover doesn’t yet have a mission, key technologies are being developed that might, one day, help us explore the rocky planets and moons throughout the solar system.
For more info on Axel, visit www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/sys...
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I was impressed by the design of the wheels. They are great for traversing very rough terrain!
seeing it detach itself in order to explore tough terrain is really cool. You guys are doing great work and I hope to see this thing actually go to mars!
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@@dayanandsgp6444and I have a put Yoxall
Realmente es sorprendente todo lo concerniente a esta exploración. Gracias por permitir ser parte de este proyecto. Felicitaciones
Wow !!! Very good wheels!! Well done!!
Awesome engineering
The two wheeler reminds me of those toys we used to make out of a wooden cotton reel, elastic band, pencil and a slice of a candle.
Exactly 😂...
Se tive se como traduzir pra português seria legal
Or flat cardboard wheels with pencils in between wheels. My dad actually made miniature crafts from scratch, even made the tools to create n fix his prototypes. He made those air hovers before the one with cameras came out.
Now that was excellent!
That's an awesome little robot, wow!
This is wildly cool.
Wow amazing work 🌎✌️👍👽
Trop fort, ça promet 🤗
I loved the way it was able to retract. I was concerned that, if the cable was caught between rocks, it would not be able to reel itself back in. The ability to pull the arm up and away with the wheels bracing and turning was beautiful. Nice job team.
Muy interesante gracias por compartir.
Increíble, felicidades a la NASA y a los inventores 🇩🇴
Sensationnel Rover 👌
Just Incredible Lads!
Always Impressive
( And in Case of any Confusion, I am Serious - This Rover is Incredible! )
Are you serious
Yeah
Ray Harryhausen would be pleased. but seriously, this is amazing!
Awesome !
For some reason this reminds me of one of my favourite toys as a kid: Zoids.
This looks awesome
Unglaublich tolle Arbeit 👍👍👍👍
that's fab!
Спасибо здорово.
*Amazing.........*
Congratulations ,so impressed
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Nice idea
DuAxel is Amazing
Like an Transformer(:
Very Nice...good job..
WOW....I LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS....
Amazing, wonderful..live for human life!!!
Incredible
Fantastic !!
Impressive 👍❤️
Impressive 👍
It should take a ramp to mars, for gnarly jump tricks.
LOL, with the lower gravity, that should be awesome!
GUEM VAI BUSCA OS LIXO DEIXADO LAR FALA PARA NOS
This kind of rover is very much needed I think maybe guys you should do done cooperation with the boston dynamics on walking robots improvement especially for more exploration and terrain.
Das ist fantastich !
Awesome.
Good looking rover just feel the tether will snag on the rocks. A shame the 2nd half doesn't do anything while un tether . Would tank tracks not work?
Espectacular
excellent
And when the front axel is off exploring, the main body of the rover won't do anything. It'll be... two tired
LOL
That's a good one.
Bruh
That joke was terrible...
wish I thought of it.
Nice
Nice!!!
Nice!!!!
Awesome
A few concerns with the tether design which will need addressing if they have not been already:
The tether (depending on its material) will be at risk of wearing as it rubs along rocks and the Martian surface. It will need to be incredibly durable.
Second, it will also become increasingly dirty and it will be at risk of pulling sand and other small particulates into the tether retraction system.
Other than that, cool concept!
"The tether provides support, power, and communication."
...must be nice.
Shouldn't we all.
Soul
7þvm
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Por fin podemos miarar algo, excelent, thank you...
Maravilloso robot
Идея имеет право на жизнь парни отлично поработали молодцы !!!
Ok
Cest très bon
C'est excelent
Genius
VERY EMPRESSIVE
Круто!
Son, increíbles
Very great👌👌👌
so cool !!
Excelente vehículo independiente.
The rover looks light wheight and faster than any other rover put on Mars, looks promising
Decades of engineering development have allowed us to realise that the secret is in the old way of speleological exploration: the rope! 😂
Cool!
In reverse, the stingy thing basically acts like an anchor. It can only be lifted when climbing steep terrain by turning the wheels forward and gravity tipping the whole thing backwards. But I can't come up with a better idea. The modular design tackles the challenge of exploring steep terrain in an impressive way. Engineering of the tether might be a challenge.
This rover is amazing.......👍👍👍
What if the thread get stuck on a rock or lets say coze of the tire movement a rock moved over the cable...then front got stuck and can the back alone function?
Epic Job as usual JPL.
Bravo 👏 👏 👏
Great concept. But I'd be worried about the tether getting tangled up or stuck somewhere.
That might make the whole rover useless.
pretty sure they are worried about it ;)
@@TheThinggummybob I suppose so but it's sort of an inherent problem of having a tether. If they had a solution I would have expected them to show it. So I doubt they have one.
It’s a prototype, so maybe that’s one of the problems they’ll look for an answer to before making the one that will actually travel to Mars.
@@marylynne9104
Of course it's a prototype but that just seems like an inherent risk of using a long tether on rough terrain. I doubt you can engineer that away.
@@Pyriphlegeton - human ingenuity got them to Mars. I have faith they will solve most problems before deployment.
Vary nice 👍
Wow! Very nice concept. With little extra weight a whole new capability, like a Transformer
Just being proud of human's brain evolution. Yes God, this is what we human can give back to You.
Me encantan la fantasía, especialmente este hábil fotógrafo.
Interesting rover
um tether, will it get stuck between rocks like fishing line sometimes does? but its coollll man
Very creative and cute.
Fantastic :-)
amazing machine
Hats off to these great brains😘😘
Wow soo cool
I am the only person to notice indisputable past life on Mars viewing rover scans of the planet.
Impressed of the extended distance of functionality and the resembling! Not at all of the wheels design.
Fantastické💕
Parece efectivo y excelente capacidad en su cometido ,sus materiales deben ser compatibles con el clima marciano incluyendo temperatura ,humedad y composición del aire y suelo o material marciano en su superficie
Молодцы,умницы,такое придумали
Very good robot in Mars. 👍
In portuguese: Muito bom o robô em Marte. 👍
Its awesome
Bravo nasa bilim adina sana cok şey borcluyuz
WoW 😮
Wow Rover did a great job
What if the martians cut the tether with their space-scissors?
Asking the real questions.
that's so cool
Good. Accepted. Thanks to NASA. Show any kind of life in Mars.
Just OP!
Nice
Hmmm. I’m not so confident in the anchor mechanism. Too many moving parts imo. I’m no NASA engineer however. This rover is neat nonetheless.
The currrent rovers have so many moving parts it's ridiculous. There's no getting away from that, since you want to cram as much useful stuff in there as possible.
@@logitech4873 You’re right about that. I was referring to the actually hook mechanism with the cable (or line or whatever) attached to it. It just seems failure prone to me. Who knows though. Just the fact that anything mechanical/electronic could survive in that extreme Martian atmosphere while being controlled from such a great distance blows my mind.
Thank
Fantastico
Gbu!!♡
Please explain is it what they are going to plan on mars( to sending this device?
That's made my day, and whoever are part 9f the team are living some of the finest dreams of people on earth
Wow super technology
Super