[postlink]https://radical-technology.blogspot.com/2017/11/robex-mond-analog-mission-sizilien-2017.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wXQf0b1bqQendofvid [starttext]In June and July 2017, the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics completed Robex tests on the volcano Etna in Sicily as part of the Helmholtz Alliance. This video shows part of the Moon-Analog Mission. As part of the experiment, the rover drives to the lunar lander and uses the robotic arm to release the seismic instrument from the screw connection. Then the seismic instrument is placed in a holding device on the rover and the rover moves to a predetermined point to deposit the seismometer there on the ground. Then the seismometer makes a measurement, is raised again and autonomously driven by the robot to another point of the traverse and dropped off there. [endtext] 
Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of salt that can think
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Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely
visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their
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