Our Project
We are a team of 10 engineering students brought together through an ETH Focus Project. Our goal is to develop a highly resilient robot engineered for impact absorption and exploration in extreme environments. Designed to withstand unsprung falls from significant heights, the robot will safeguard its onboard electronics and remain fully operational. Once on the ground, it will use an advanced locomotion system, paired with cameras and/or LiDAR, to navigate and explore possibly unknown and challenging terrains with precision and reliability.
Impacting
Space Exploration
Impacting
In the future, our robot could serve as a vital platform for cave exploration on planets and moons, where the absence of an atmosphere makes flying robots impractical. Its ability to survive significant falls allows for simple deployment by being dropped directly from a landing vehicle thereby reducing mission complexity and improving operational efficiency. This versatility could open new possibilities for autonomous exploration in challenging, hard-to-reach environments such as lunar lava tubes, which have never been explored.