hey guys we're here at the NASA booth at
CES and we're about to show you how they
make some magic now when you think of
rover you think of that 2,000 pound
machine that explores the surface of
Mars but it actually takes an army of
mini Rovers to really explore every
crevice this one that we're seeing here
it's called the drop and it's meant to
go up pretty much any kind of rough
surface in Mars and it's got these
little anchors over here that are
helping it climb up the wall the drop is
designed so that the wheels can be
interchanged with other materials this
is an electrostatic anchor using the
Gecko grip technology that nASA has
created so what it really does it allows
it to go up a smooth surface so it has a
current going through that that adapts
to different types of smooth surfaces
and it also has this gecko like grip and
these two robots over here are the
puffers and they're designed to be able
to fold so that they can access crevices
in the surface so now here's a demo of
how it really folds and all the
components are on this fabric and NASA
is also investing in the next generation
of Engineers with this open source Rover
it's made of parts that pretty much
anybody can get and it's meant so that
high schoolers can start creating
different add-ons or start automating
certain parts of this Rover and who
knows maybe in the future we'll see them
implement it in the actual Rover that
goes to check out the surface of Mars
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