Sample Return Robot

SAAB Develops Underwater Anti-IED Robot – Sea Wasp

SAAB Develops Underwater Anti-IED Robot – Sea Wasp

May 18, 2016 @ 21:44 |  Defense and security company Saab presented its remotely operated vehicle (ROV), Sea Wasp, at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland. Sea Wasp, which relocates, identifies and neutralizes underwater improvised explosive devices (IEDs), is designed to combat below-the-surface terrorism. To produce the Sea Wasp, Saab leveraged technology […]

Virginia University wins NASA’s Mars Sample Return Robot Challenge

Virginia University wins NASA’s Mars Sample Return Robot Challenge

Mars Sample Return is a proposed mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth. The mission would use robotic systems and a Mars ascent rocket to collect and send samples of Martian rocks, soils and atmosphere to Earth for detailed chemical and physical analysis. NASA has awarded $100,000 in prize money to […]