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To solve our resource problem? after all, its all a fair way off yet. as well as designing the rest of the robot, with help of tohoko university injapan, the asteroid mining corporation need to find the right asteroid to mine. now, thats done by looking at the chemical composition of meteorites to identify what their parent bodies — in this case, asteroids — are made of. so, there you go. each element has been assigned randomly a colour. so, in this image, all the green is iron, all the oran...

Un- ers gripping onto the surface hard. the grippers they use are essentially derived — grippers they use are essentially derived from ultimately things like gecko— derived from ultimately things like gecko pads and if you look at the ends _ gecko pads and if you look at the ends of— gecko pads and if you look at the ends of tarantulas feats, at the little _ ends of tarantulas feats, at the little hairs— ends of tarantulas feats, at the little hairs they have, that is how a spider— lit...

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The claw that stops it from floating away from the asteroid by gripping onto the surface hard. the grippers that they use are essentially derived from, ultimately, things like gecko pads and if you look at, like, the ends of tarantulas feet, you know, the hairs that they have? thats how a spider is able to climb the wall. weve not quite tested this, but if you were to put one on your head, it would have the force required to crush your skull. oh, good! which is lovely, isnt it? well, if youre go...

Gecko pads and if you look at, like, the ends of tarantulas feet, you know, the hairs that they have? thats how a spider is able to climb the wall. weve not quite tested this, but if you were to put one on your head, it would have the force required to crush your skull. oh, good! which is lovely, isnt it? well, if youre going to make an asteroid—climbing robot, make a killer asteroid—climbing robot. but, really, is this the way to solve our resource problem? after all, its all a fair way off...

Ceiling is right on top of them. Bill we just had an update a moment ago from Emergency Officials saying they arent giving up on finding people alive in that rubble. We are listening for sounds. It is not specifically human sounds. It could be tapping. It could be steel kind of twisting, it could be some of the debris raining down. We concentrate in those areas. From below we continue with using light machinery, saws, jack hammers as we continue to tunnel through underneath. We have hope and eve...

Ceiling is right on top of them. Bill we just had an update a moment ago from Emergency Officials saying they arent giving up on finding people alive in that rubble. We are listening for sounds. It is not specifically human sounds. It could be tapping. It could be steel kind of twisting, it could be some of the debris raining down. We concentrate in those areas. From below we continue with using light machinery, saws, jack hammers as we continue to tunnel through underneath. We have hope and eve...

Ceiling is right on top of them. Bill we just had an update a moment ago from Emergency Officials saying they arent giving up on finding people alive in that rubble. We are listening for sounds. It is not specifically human sounds. It could be tapping. It could be steel kind of twisting, it could be some of the debris raining down. We concentrate in those areas. From below we continue with using light machinery, saws, jack hammers as we continue to tunnel through underneath. We have hope and eve...

Ceiling is right on top of them. Bill we just had an update a moment ago from Emergency Officials saying they arent giving up on finding people alive in that rubble. We are listening for sounds. It is not specifically human sounds. It could be tapping. It could be steel kind of twisting, it could be some of the debris raining down. We concentrate in those areas. From below we continue with using light machinery, saws, jack hammers as we continue to tunnel through underneath. We have hope and eve...

Ceiling is right on top of them. Bill we just had an update a moment ago from Emergency Officials saying they arent giving up on finding people alive in that rubble. We are listening for sounds. It is not specifically human sounds. It could be tapping. It could be steel kind of twisting, it could be some of the debris raining down. We concentrate in those areas. From below we continue with using light machinery, saws, jack hammers as we continue to tunnel through underneath. We have hope and eve...