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Ingenuity
Experimental rotorcraft that demonstrated powered, controlled flight on Mars and later performed scouting flights.
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25 results for “Mars technology demonstration”
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Space Robot
Rosalind Franklin Rover
ExoMars rover designed to travel across Mars and drill below the surface in search of evidence relevant to past life.
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Maritime System
Manta Ray
Manta Ray is a full-scale uncrewed underwater demonstrator developed for long-duration, long-range autonomous missions with modular payloads and low-power seabed…
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Space Robot
LEV-1
Small hopping lunar excursion vehicle deployed during the SLIM landing mission.
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Space Robot
SORA-Q / LEV-2
Small transformable lunar robot deployed by SLIM to move on the surface and photograph the lander.
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Technology
Machine Learning
Machine learning develops models whose behavior is fitted from data rather than specified only through fixed rules.
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Technology
Autonomous Navigation
Autonomous navigation combines perception, localization, planning and control so a machine can move toward goals with limited direct human input.
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Space Robot
Perseverance
Perseverance is NASA's Mars 2020 rover, built to study Jezero Crater, cache samples and demonstrate exploration technologies.
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Technology
Computer Vision
Computer vision uses computational methods to extract information from images and video.
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Technology
Embodied AI
Embodied AI studies intelligent agents that perceive and act through a body in a physical or simulated environment.
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Technology
Lidar
Lidar measures distance by timing reflected laser light and can build geometric representations of surroundings.
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Technology
Radar
Radar transmits radio waves and analyzes reflected energy to estimate range, direction and often relative velocity.
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Technology
Robotic Manipulation
Robotic manipulation concerns sensing, planning and controlling physical contact with objects and tools.
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Technology
Sensor Fusion
Sensor fusion combines measurements from multiple sensors to estimate a system or environment more reliably than a single stream alone.
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Technology
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
SLAM estimates a machine's location while constructing or updating a map of an initially uncertain environment.
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Company
Kongsberg Maritime
Kongsberg Maritime supplies marine technology including HUGIN autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Space Robot
Curiosity
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, designed to investigate whether Gale Crater ever had environments suitable for microbial life.
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Space Robot
InSight
Stationary Mars lander that used a robotic arm to place geophysical instruments on the surface.
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Space Robot
Opportunity
Mars Exploration Rover that conducted long-duration surface science in Meridiani Planum.
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Space Robot
Phoenix Lander
Stationary Mars lander equipped with a robotic arm to excavate and analyze soil and ice in the northern plains.
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Space Robot
Sojourner
Small rover delivered by Mars Pathfinder and the first wheeled vehicle to operate on another planet.
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Space Robot
Spirit
Mars Exploration Rover that investigated rocks, soils, and geological evidence at Gusev Crater.
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Space Robot
Pragyan
Six-wheeled lunar rover carried by Chandrayaan-3's Vikram lander for in-situ elemental measurements near the lunar south polar region.
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Space Robot
VIPER
NASA lunar rover built to investigate water ice and other resources near the Moon's south pole; NASA ended the original mission project in 2024.
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Robot
Naïo Dino
Straddle field robot developed for mechanical weeding in large-scale vegetable beds.