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Space robot engineer
32 pages
illustrations (chiefly colour)
Contents include: We're safe on Mars! -- Building space robots -- How to design a robot -- Designing a Mars robot -- Test-driving "Scarecrow" -- Clean rooms and bunny suits -- The EDL team -- The mission scientists -- Driving a robot rover -- Martian superstars -- Robot astronauts -- Creating Robonaut -- Space robots of the future -- Get to work as a space robot engineer.
Summary: Inside this book, meet the space robot engineers who use science, math, and technology to design and build incredible machines that do work in outer space. How do robot engineers turn ideas and sketches into fully functioning machines? Why would a robot engineer be in a laboratory one day and a desert the next? And how do you drive and control a robot rover that's on a planet millions of miles from Earth?
Get to work with science and technology.