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ATHLETE

he All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, or ATHLETE, is NASA’s concept for a heavy-lift utility robot to help human exploration by carrying loads over long distances. Starting in 2005, the project has built and tested two generations based around an ingenious multipurpose structure. ATHLETE has six limbs fixed around a central ring. The limbs

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