Where can we buy one?
NASA has created a new Modular Robotic Vehicle “with the help of the American automotive industry” and we have to say, it looks pretty damn slick.
The Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV) is a fully electric golf cart-like rover that’s capable of being driven remotely or by a human behind the wheel and it can even move sideways like a crab.
That’s thanks to the MRV’s four independent motors located in each wheel, which also makes parallel parking a breeze.
The MRV gives us a glimpse at what rover vehicles might look like for future space missions, manned or unmanned, but for now it shall remain as a cool toy for the good folk at NASA to play around with while the work on other ‘space stuff’.
That’s the scientific term, by the way.
Video via NASA JSC Engineering – YouTube
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