The Spot robot, manufactured by the famous robotics company Boston Dynamics, is one of the most important and famous robots of this company over the past years, and although its production is still limited due to the nature of its tasks, this time it found a more complex task
The media revealed that the US space agency, NASA, in addition to the laboratory of the JPL-Caltech Center for Research and Development, have approved a new version of the Spot robot, which is a copy directed to work on the surface of Mars and will bear the name Mars Dog, where the mission of this new robot will be to discover Not only the surface of Mars, as is the case with the spacecraft currently there, but also beneath the surface of this planet in caves, where it is possible that under the surface of Mars a suitable place for humans to live
The Spot Robot will be the excellent tool for discovering Mars, due to its smoothness and ability to move in difficult environments such as the red planet, as it is faster than the Curiosity spacecraft currently on the surface of Mars and is lighter in weight, which gives it greater ability to move and discover more locations
In addition, Spot is equipped with the latest modern technologies that enable it to discover, whether it is related to different sensors, cameras of all kinds, or other additions