Sticky Feet Help Robots Land on Asteroids

Sticky Feet Help Robots Land on AsteroidsA new biologically-inspired robot could one day crawl over the surface of an asteroid or Mars and gather samples for study using lots of tiny, mechanical "toes." Aaron Parness, a robotics researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, presented his gripper May 16 at the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) annual robotics conference, IEEE's Spectrum magazine reported.