American Scientists are Developing Microbots to Search for Life on Other Planets
The search for life on other planets is one of the key scientific missions for the coming years. Consequently, American scientists are developing a generation of microbots, which they plan to use as the most effective tools for this mission.
A type of microbot (Photo: VNN)
These microbots can traverse the surface of planets, explore caves, and navigate treacherous nooks and crannies that devices like Spirit and Opportunity are unable to access.
Dr. Penelope Boston from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and Dr. Stephen Dubowsky from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are researching a spherical type of robot that is only the size of a tennis ball.
The scientists have equipped these robots with a range of advanced tools, including ultra-small cameras, spectrometers, and various sensors to search for living organisms in canyons and volcanic craters.
The information collected by the microbots will be transmitted to orbital stations in space or to ground-based stations.
The main advantage of this type of robot is its lightweight and small size. Therefore, it is possible to deploy thousands of them on the planets that need to be studied.
