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Friday, September 21, 2007

University Unveils Moon Mining Robot Buggy

Bot nerds at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science unveiled a four-wheeled robot concept called "Scarab" that is designed to DRILL INTO THE MOON to mine "hydrogen, possibly water and other volatile chemicals" for use at a manned moon base. The bot is super ruggedized, and can operate for long periods without solar power by using a "radioisotope source."

Comments:

Blogger x said...

Great we could use a fleet of those in the desert states to ofset the high cost of drilling for water.

Monday, September 24, 2007 11:11:00 PM  

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