That's because the team envisions their robot as both an explorer and a piece of continuous monitoring equipment, which could scope out tidepools, lakes, rice paddies, laboratory analogs ...

This is what [Norbert Heinz]’s Earth Explorer robots do, and anyone can drive any of the robots to explore whatever locations they happen to be in. A major goal of the Earth Explorer robot is to ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.