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Autonomous Robots Take On Dangerous Warehouse Jobs
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
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Overview
Engineers at Johnson Space Center worked with programmers at Carnegie Mellon University to create a prototype robot team capable of working autonomously to build a solar array on the Moon. The project never flew, but one of the graduate students who worked on it is now a senior research scientist at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Vecna Technologies, where he used the experience to design software that turns any collection of standard warehouse vehicles into an autonomous team.