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Podcast: Ever Wonder? from the California Science Center
Episode: ...how to build robots that go to space? (with Matthew Frost)
Description: For the last few episodes, we've been talking to robotics experts about everything from robot swarms to human-robot interactions. One thing all of these roboticists have in common is that they build robots that are used here on Earth. But that's not the only place robots can be useful. Do you ever wonder how engineers build robots that go to space?This past July, NASA launched Perseverance, its latest and most ambitious Mars rover. It was designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, right here in the LA area, not far away f...