Sep 21 2007Lunar Mining Robot Looks Like Awesome Toy

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Scarab, the moon miner, was developed at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon. He's an awesome little guy designed to mine "hydrogen, possibly water, and other volatile chemicals" for use at a future moonbase. I didn't know water was a volatile chemical, but whatever. It runs off solar energy, and when there isn't any, it utilizes a "radioisotope source" for power. Which is good news, because I've been waiting for an RC car that runs off decaying uranium.

[sciencedaily] via [therawfeed]

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1. Ariana - September 21, 2007 10:04 AM

WICKED!

2. Brian - September 21, 2007 6:17 PM

Volatile means it evaporates easily. Water evaporates easily.

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