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Originally Posted by Tottanka
I still think the Athlete is more impressive than the Spidernaut is, and more planet-researching-enabled than the Robonaout is.
The fact the the Athletes can both walk and drive beats Spideranuts walking abbilty. It's 360 degrees view and walking path is awesome, and the way it can drill and change tools is pure geniousity(?). Only problem is i dont see how the tool in hand can be cahnged when the robot is already on a planet, far away from a human who can chane it. They might add there something that does it,or maybe even a sub-robot that does it  |
I agree that Athlete can beat Spidernaut in a race any day, but I am assuming that their purposes are different and you'll be waiting for a while if you're waiting for a race. As for Robonaut, I think that it can do more specific types of research compared to ATHLETE. IMO ATHLETE is the jock of the NASA party and can do all of the cool impressive stuff, but leave all of the cool stuff up to the Nerds. My favorite bot from NASA is the
LEMUR, and in a close second comes Robonaut and its Two-Face like possibilities for humans. I would also like to mention I would love to have take SCOUT out for a spin some time, what do ya think Dave?
For some more cool pics of random NASA robots you can check out the following link:
http://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/desert06.htm
Pavan