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Re: NASA has a mini-bot
We can hardly call Curiosity a mini-bot.
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1. How Big Is It?: The Mini Cooper-sized rover is much bigger than its rover predecessors, Spirit, Opportunity and Sojourner. Curiosity is twice as long (about 2.8 meters, or 9 feet) and four times as heavy as Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in 2004. Sojourner, about the size of a microwave oven, landed in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission.
This quite a pile of metal. More information at the official site. It's easy to see why NASA is interested in promoting robotics. I'm just now wondering how many FIRST alumni have had a hand in Curiosity's gestation.
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