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USC Viterbi School of Engineering: Teaching Robots to Walk on the Moon, and Maybe Rescue One Another
April 04, 2024
LOS ANGELES, California, April 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news:

USC, UPenn, Texas A&M, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Temple University, and NASA Johnson Space Center are teaching dog-like robots to navigate craters of the moon and other challenging planetary surfaces in research funded by NASA.

The Palmer Glacier on Oregon's Mount Hood isn't the moon, but it's a good plac . . .

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