Flying, rolling robot might make a great Titan explorer

Designed by Arash Kalantari and Matthew Spenko at the Robotics Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology , this rolling birdcage is actually a quadrotor flying craft that's wrapped in a protective framework, allowing it to move freely … Credit: IIT . Also, the robot's cage design may make it better suited to travel across the frozen crust of Titan's flood plains, which have been found to have a consistency like damp sand with a layer of frozen snow on top

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Flying, rolling robot might make a great Titan explorer

Flying, rolling robot might make a great Titan explorer