Lunar robots cooperate on heavy lifting

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http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13590

ATHLETE robots can be used in pairs to lift heavy objects (Courtesy of NASA/JPL)

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[sparks444]

How cute

[DeathFrikinChikin]

at the beginning of the vid in the lower left corner theres no shadow, at the end, its touching one of them...

thats a long time lol

[ThOasisEntertainment]

@DeathFrikinChikin This is a timelapse, fucktard :)

[derman077]

They faked this in a studio. 

[otterpopjunkie]

For good reason. Faster means heavier, harder to control, and more likely to #$&% something up. and shipping to mars and the moon is way more expensive than FedEx.

[TanTanz1992]

Almost every robot is still in it's prototype-stage =)

Just think what they can do in like 20 years. :)

[ketanovas]

why can't they program a robot to make several movements simultaneously, and now it moves so discreet, so it takes long to make a chain of movements.

[ciucinciu]

so why they dont work simultaneously?? it will do the job much faster

[weirdkid1223]

i think this is stop motion animation not a video that was sped up.