Testing Out JPL’s New Snake Robot
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is creating and testing a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). 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.
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.
Because 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. When something goes wrong, the goal is for the robot to recover on its own, without human assistance.
The project team began building the first prototype in 2019, and has been making continual revisions. 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. In its current form, the EELS 1.0 robot weighs about 220 pounds (100 kilograms) and is 13 feet (4 meters) long.
EELS is funded by the Office of Technology Infusion and Strategy at JPL in Southern California through a technology accelerator program called JPL Next. JPL is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California. The EELS team has worked with a number of university partners on the project, including Arizona State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California, San Diego. The robot is not currently part of any NASA mission.
For more information on the project go to: www-robotics.j... and go.nasa.gov/3V....
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
So we're the aliens dropping terrifying robot snakes on other planets? Awesome!
No you nitwit they are using them on earth
Obviously haven't seen the movies "Nine" or the Matrix lol
The first human machine to successfully land on Mars was a robot tripod. The reverse of what H.G Wells predicted in war of the worlds
@warwicklilley4160 what have those got to do with aliens?
No
I showed this to my snakes. They didn't care.
Now that I've watched this video, my first thought is, "How is it powered?" The tech for this kind of robotics doesn't seem that difficult. But if you've found a way to keep it powered over a multi-year mission, that is a big deal. That's what I want to hear about.
That’s true, how would you power this? I’m assuming they’re not using an external source of power as it would severely limit its exploration ability. Maybe a tiny radio decay reactor?
Maybe they''ll pop one of those stirling converters they've been working on in it.
The scientific everlasting fuel: Red Bull
I guess the same way a submarine is. Now I have to look into those nuclear submarines, I just figured it I have no idea if they burn any oxygen like a car engine does.
@@traduni920 They don’t burn oxygen, they create it from water
Well it definitely looks very versatile as long as you have an understanding of the terrain it will face. Very cool
Should work extremely well for fleshy and wet terrain, especially in enclosed spaces.
@@Gigasimo456 Fleshy? 💀
That is such brilliant idea. Well done NASA JPL.
Collapsed wells, pipes, or caved-in mines for rescue work where normal robots could not navigate or wedge into crevices. A really hardened unit could explore or drill into geysers or volcanic regions to make new discoveries. Make your augers out of nickle-based alloys like Iconel and put explosives into the head to blast your way forward.
Now, can it be made to deploy by springing out from a giant can of Pringles?
I feel that this concept would benefit from the introduction of a robotic badger and a synthetic mushroom.
Aaaand now that song is stuck in my head...
F'kn LOL
Mushroom involved with this idea for sure.
I love it! It is so versatile, with great possibilities.
I brought one of those for my girlfriend. Loves it ! 😊
So here's the test case:
Drop them in random places on Antarctica and then use satellites to connect and follow them.
That's basically an icy planet with actual satellite connection just like it would explore an icy moon.
Very awesome concept! Looking forward to seeing it slithering where no snake has slithered before.
Also, this is the grandpa of Horizon: Forbidden West's Slitherfangs and you can't convince me otherwise.
Great designs I have some crude drawings for a highly accurate lunar sampling device that is a fixed under a very simple solar powered rover made out of PEX and tension wire (2 3d lidar scanning devices to preform SLAM and navigation) the sample collection drive is lowered using using a wire elevation system. The same style design as a hard drive but instead of platters fixed around the circle will be sample tubes inside of each tube will be a drill with a carbide or diamond tip similar to that Dentist would use the drill will have smooth part of the shaft to allow seals and an auger section shaft to allow for sample collection The simple tubes will move cylindrically with one motor whereas the drill will move linearly on a second motor to the position of the sample tube.
The rover will be able to navigate around and collect samples of a much smaller size on individual crystal structures on rocks instead of the large course sample is currently taken then storing this pre-ground material in internalize sample tubes once the sampling devices fall the rover will return to the standalone mass spectrometer unit and since I only understood time of flight mass spectrometry that’s probably what I will use.
The hope is to create a lighter Rover by using PEX or Aluma-PEX materials and tension wires as well as collecting smaller samples using smaller drills. This mission would have little capacity for heavy lifting but an hopefully an extended mission life if able to access multiple “ sample drives” maybe this rover is so light we can send more that one covering a wider range for study.
Craters at the South Pole of the Moon are in perpetual darkness.
That is why they are a great place to look for water.
JPL, not just jet engines! Great concept!
I suppose there will be dozens of prototypes, it depends on what you want to do and where you want to go. I always know: Priorities, weight and space on board, without neglecting: energy, safety, redundancies,...
It looks to me at least, like it would take a lot of energy to continually run all those motors during maneuvers with no obvious way of recharging itself. Surely a snake like traverse would be more energy efficient?
"I am telling you now, I have plans that I can not share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me..."
Only a matter of time till this gets converted to a terrifying war device.
Looks like something i found at my mums drawer when i was little,
The black was better than the white coiled, idk it just moves way better
Much more informative than the press release regurgitations I have read.
Awesome. I can see a lots of potential usage.
I'm curious to know how will it be powered outside earth? Neither seeing potential surface area for solar panels nor big enough to hold nuclear power generation equipment.
is it the same machine as we saw in "DUNE" ?
Better not put another prototype in my bed while I'm sleeping
it would be cool if nasa could integrate a cable winch system between some of the motorized sections.
I'm thinking of a scenario in which the robot comes across a chasm that is too deep or too wide to cross. half the robot could anchor itself into the ice and lower the other half with the winch and cable until the lower half of the robot can anchor itself, allowing the top half of the robot to release its anchor and continue descending.
It is just me or it look like "The Drill" that breaking Ba Sing Se wall in Avatar the last airbender 😅
The HBO show "Raised by Wolves" is starting to make a lot more sense
youre happy to see me 😉
or is that a giant snake-bot 🤔🤖🐍
wrapping around my leg 😐
I’ve had it with these motherf****** snakes on this motherf****** planet!!
Does it come in pink? Asking for a friend.
Wicked cool! I'm curious what sort of instrument payload capacity it has.
What happens if you send it all the way to Europa only to find they use European power sockets?
Good work! I won't state the obvious beyond that.
Good luck on your future missions little guy, you're going to change the world
Looks good.
I was just in Jasper Alberta Canada and they were testing this on the Athabasca Glacier!! Such an awesome device!!!
Like a 1930s Fordson snowmobile catepillar 👍
All I see is a new adult toy. ☺️
"I am telling you now, I have plans that I can not share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me..."
Why no footage of it in water? Isn't that it's primary objective? To explore a subsurface ocean on Enceladus? I would have expected to see lots of footage of it in pools, then graduating to lakes and finally in the ocean.
How does it change it's "fins"? The ones shown on the ice rink are steel blades. The ones shown everywhere else are white plastic, and totally different sizes. Which type of "fins" will be used when it's in a liquid environment?
Good concept! How will it keep its camera lenses safe from scratches and clean in the dusty environment like the Martian desert?
Actually windshield wipers would be a good idea
Just like in real life on Earth. Some homeless guy will jump out and wash the camera lens...even if you tell them not to. And then tell you that you owe them money.
Okay, gotta say if I were an alien and saw one of these slither towards me...
Gonna get hit with a rock.
Finally... THE CORE! (movie)
Also interesting the center doesn't rotate when the outside does (as in torque/counter)
Something tells me... girls will love the new tech/
So, yeah, this looks pretty good. Needs some more refinement but is starting to look like a practical viable machine. Can we use a smaller one to explore more of the Giza Pyramids non-destructively.??
guys hear me out
This is very interesting. I'm always impressed by the sciences & technology. I'd like to add that my Wish List for Humanity is for earthbound agriculture to receive a lot of innovative attention. We still have people picking cotton and living in poverty in Bakersfield, California. The children suffer. Teachers & schools are with their struggling students 5 days a week. Better robotic tools for planting, cultivating, harvesting & processing are still greatly needed in Ag. I've made this type of comment several times on Boston Robotics youtube posts. I LOVE their robotic accomplishments. Really. We can't continue into the future depending on human females to reproduce the labor force for all job positions. Or depend on impoverished people in various nations to provide us the people for jobs U.S. Americans say they won't work at. A sober view of the U.S. includes the pessimistic perception that we are still on a very low level, as far as civilization goes. We would probably get a mediocre rating from the aliens for how we handle key industries for food production.
Well, THAT manifesto of yours is certainly off topic. Good show, old sport! 😸
@@TheStockwell My comment was about advancing AI & robotic technology in general and not off topic from my perspective.
fill it up with C4 and it is a self deploying Bangalore torpedo!
You can weaponize anything.
Giggity.
That's amazing and also terrifying.
I want to see this explore Uranus
Man ! So cool !
Now snakes need to worry about their jobs being automated. :/
Friction is going to wreck this thing IF it's used out of liquid.
Lol, this is funny. People have been seeing tunnels on Mars that seem to be made of glass.
[energetic music]
What a pleasant little buddy
Looks like an awesome robot! Really agile and flexible!
And fragile lol
Do they come in dif sizes and colors, asking for a friend?
kudos to scientists and engineers 👍👍
😉😏
snake
Great work.
My wife has one of these at the bottom of her sock drawer.
Don't blame yourself, old sport. I'm sure you're doing the best you can!
They should use this to pull line clearing charges into minefields.
Incredible...
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That's it , human learns from nature...
Very cool! Man..even water possibly with that design too!
Thin dust will jam the internal gears
Хммм... а как у этой штуки успехи в части прочистки канализационных труб, не проверяли? 🤔
I'm still confused about how will it be get recharged under the water once it's batteries went out of power
I see where this is going. I need some acid arrows and a blast sling ASAP.
Awesome 😎👍
The future of colonoscopies.🤣
Im just here for the [energetic music]
I watched too much anime to know where this is going 😅
"I am telling you now, I have plans that I can not share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me..."
@@styx5977 😂😂😂
Allen Pan probably wants to give them legs.
That thing reminds me of the snake alien robot in War of the Worlds movie.
How it will walk on rought surface and small mountains
You know how technology developed by the aerospace industry eventually makes our lives better here on Earth - you know: spinoff technologies.
Well, I'm watching this and thinking, "THIS contraption is going to be very popular, betcha boy howdy!"
can be used in a japanese certain device.
can be used to find missing people under rubble.
Precisely that was advocated as a justification for such projects 20 years ago. There were research robots built, but I do not know if any of it was ever sufficiently robust for actual use.
Is this to big to explore the pyramid, or the collapse under the sphinx?
Where will it get it's energy from
feels like it came from The Core movies 😂
Brilliant.....keep it up guys
Better Deploy SNAKE with Oxygen Mask in Moon 😅
Nutshell::HumNs copying Nature!
Doc Ock approves...
Drop some fungus, small fishes, microbes in Enceladus...and see if they Survive....if they do survive i will pack my bags and shift to Enceladus 😂😅just imagine the Gorgeous Beautiful night sky filled with Saturn's rings❤
how would it be powered?
Amazing invention!!! JPL, could you also please make another version which is not pornhub-themed?
NASA can I join you to go to mars this is my dream I would like to go there and return to earth... please say yes😍😃 my name is Matheus Enrique I live in Brazil
Neal Stephenson's Seveneves novel has the Siwi, Dinah MacQuarie and Sean Probst would be proud.
Impressive
Nice 👍
It is funny how they are acting like this is awesome new stuff when all they had to do was call DARPA. They had one climbing trees and fences 10 years ago.
Would make a tough to spot drone for the military.
Lame..they could've chose a more efficient Design Pattern.
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most everything i saw it working in in the video was places where wheels work perfectly fine and are more economical and less wasteful of energy. but the music sure made it feel more important than it was. because for the millions of dollars invested, it's gotta be a big deal.
With that kind of pace it will discover Elon Musk great great grandkids already landed and built a interplanetary base
Hi JPL; nice innovation../ help me sometimes no more comments to you "speechless". ...
Mars Snake Laboratory 👀