NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and university partners are building a case for sending four-legged robots, modeled on the agility of dogs, to explore the Moon and Mars with minimal human oversight.

The silent and vast dunes of White Sands National Park stretch endlessly, but these days their stillness is broken by the trot of a dog-like robot bound for Mars. One of the largest gypsum dune fields ...

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Before a “robot dog” can fetch data on the moon or Mars, it must learn to do so on Earth. And right now, that’s exactly what’s happening in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park with a contraption ...

USC engineering students were part of the team that developed and trained the robot. (Teo Gonzales / Daily Trojan file photo) In April 2009, a NASA rover was exploring the surface of Mars when it rode ...