Collage of photos showing robotics projects at JPL

When:

Thursday, October 20 & Friday, October 21, 2016

Where:

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Thursday) & Pasadena City College (Friday)

Target Audience:

General public

Overview:

The ability to rove the surface of Mars has revolutionized JPL missions. With more advanced mobility, new targets like cliff faces, cave ceilings, and the surfaces of asteroids and comets could be explored. This talk will present the work of JPL’s Robotic Rapid Prototyping Lab. This includes grippers for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, which plans to extract a 15-ton boulder from the surface of an asteroid and alter its orbit – a method that could prevent future impacts to the Earth. The talk will also present gecko inspired adhesives currently being tested on the International Space Station, miniaturized robots that can drive across surfaces in zero gravity, and rock climbing robots traversing giant lava tubes in New Mexico. We will discuss not only the projects, but the new tools and techniques (3D printers, computer-aided-design software, miniature electronics) that allow us to build and iterate robots more quickly than ever before.

Speaker:
Dr. Aaron Parness
Extreme Environment Robotics Group

Locations: 
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 7 p.m.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, von Karman Auditorium
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
Pasadena, California
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Friday, October 21, 2016, 7 p.m.
Pasadena City College, Vosloh Forum
1570 East Colorado Blvd. 
Pasadena, California
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Webcast: 
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