JPL is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California. In its current form, the EELS 1.0 robot weighs about 220 pounds (100 kilograms) and is 13 feet (4 meters) long.ĮELS is funded by the Office of Technology Infusion and Strategy at JPL in Southern California through a technology accelerator program called JPL Next. They’ve been trying out white, 3D-printed plastic screws for testing on looser terrain like sand and soft snow, as well as sharper, black metal screws for ice. The project team began building the first prototype in 2019, and has been making continual revisions.
When something goes wrong, the goal is for the robot to recover on its own, without human assistance. The robot has been put to the test in sandy, snowy, and icy environments, including the Mars-like terrain at JPL’s Mars Yard, a “robot playground” created at a ski resort in the snowy mountains of Southern California, and even an indoor ice rink.īecause of the long communications lag time between Earth and deep space, EELS is designed to autonomously sense its environment, calculate risk, travel, and gather data with yet-to-be-determined science instruments. Inspired by a desire to descend vents on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and enter the subsurface ocean, this versatile robot is being developed to autonomously map, traverse, and explore previously inaccessible destinations on Earth, the Moon, and other worlds in our solar system. To read more about the EELS project GO HERE:Ī team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating and testing a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). Not sure if this technology could be employed in the ski industry but its always neat to see new ways of navigating snow. Where do you take a prototype robot designed to explore the vents of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus…a ski resort of course! A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took their new Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS Robot) to the slopes of a southern California where they put together a “robot playground”to give it whirl in the snow. Then it needs to go down a 100-foot drop and not fall.” – Rohan Thakker
The robot has to figure out what the road is and try to follow it. Through their combination of existing military footwear design and future techwear styles, these definitely seem to be a precursor of the Bridges Boot in Death Stranding, especially given the colour choices resembling those chosen for the default garment colours in-game and later adopted for the collaborative ACRONYM J1A-GT.“Imagine a car driving autonomously, but there are no stop signs, no traffic signals, not even any roads. The noise-dampening feature of the soles further reinforce this, actually being an idea explored recently (especially after the popularity of Shuri’s sneakers in Black Panther) by engineer/YouTuber Jake Laser through the use of Aerogel, showing the direct effect fictional future-tech design can have on existing engineers/manufacturers. The sole contrasts this however, having a stylised grip that looks more likely to have been manufactured today, acting as a sign of the progression of design in the world of Metal Gear. Used here in the 1980s setting of The Phantom Pain, they have been designed appropriate to the time in most aspects, appearing relatively similar to standard military-issued boots of the decade, complete with protective- gaiters.
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