NASA hopes a robot like this could one day explore caves on other planets using its extra-long reach.
. The team hopes this novel approach to locomotion will make the robot good at exploring rough terrain, including underground caves and caverns without getting stuck on natural obstacles like other robots can.
We’ve known about the idea behind ReachBot for a few years now. Instead of legs or wheels or even a propeller, the robot would use a series of long extendable booms with grippers on the end to reach out and grab onto objects in order to pull itself along.
There’s currently no timeline for when ReachBot will be ready to blast off and explore other planets. As clever as repurposing tape measures is, it will need to rely on booms with a longer and more secure reach. As anyone who’s ever played with a tape measure before knows, you can really only extend it five or six feet before the tape ‘snaps’ under its own weight and collapses. Nasa’s not going to be sending Craftsman’s finest to Mars anytime soon.
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