He still moves with an effortless steadiness over the testing terrain, not a bead of sweat on his bald pate or smooth brow, both tanned a rich chestnut.
Our mission, as it's planned, is to fly over some of the oldest terrain on Mars, very highly magnetized crustal material that dates back to the beginning of Mars, 4.6 billion years ago.
That loose gait also allows Troody to walk over rough terrain, like the Troodon dinosaurs on which she is modeled.
The rubber tracks (3) allow the Viking to travel over soft terrain such as desert, snow or mud because its load is evenly distributed over all four tracks, all of which are driven.
The ranch is near the area ravaged by the Cedar fire, which killed a dozen people four years ago this week as it moved swiftly through the hilly terrain, eventually consuming over 280, 000 acres.
The team followed Ninja Cow for miles over rough terrain, across snow and ice.
Yesterday, DARPA announced that an LS3 protoype has successfully completed several exercises, including the ability to follow a person using its sensors over rugged terrain outside.
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It traverses oxygen-starved, earthquake-prone terrain that for most of the way is over 4, 000 metres (13, 120 feet) above sea level and rises to 5, 072 metres not far off the altitude of Mount Everest's base camp.
The lifesaving serum had to travel a harrowing 674 miles over forbidding terrain via dogsled.
Using NASA technology and walking algorithms developed at IHMC, X1 has the potential to produce high torques to allow for assisted walking over varied terrain, as well as stair climbing.
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Boston Dynamics' latest quadruped, the LS3, aims to carry 400 pounds of materiel over 20 miles of rough terrain.
The terrain proved difficult for the army bomb disposal team - their first robot toppled over during a squall and a second vehicle was sent in to deal with the suspect device.
"They train at a similar climate, elevation and terrain as Afghanistan, " said Rocha, who has visited the depot many times over the years.
Washington County is a terrain of gentle hills and close valleys that grows more rugged as you get east over toward the Vermont border, where the Green Mountains begin in earnest.
The first trial run demonstrated that 1 km of high-density polyethylene pipe could be laid down over mountainous terrain and in windy conditions in just nine minutes.
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However many weapons they hand over, there is little to stop the fighters hiding their best equipment in the mountains on the Kosovan border, terrain they have controlled since February.
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