Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher

ERNEST, short for Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain, is a small prototype rover built to be more ...
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NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles alone in the desert

NASA's ERNEST rover drove 16 miles autonomously in 37 hours, moving 10x faster than Perseverance in a test that could reshape ...
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NASA’s new rover prototype drove 16 miles in a week, 10 times faster than anything it has on Mars

JPL's ERNEST rover covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving during desert testing, using active suspension and reinforcement learning to navigate terrain.
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NASA JPL launches AI-powered rover operations hub for Moon and Mars

This new home for NASA’s Mars rover mission was characterized by Jennifer Trosper, the ROC program manager, in the following ...
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NASA Advances Planetary Rover Technology with ERNEST Prototype

The ERNEST project began with the goal of developing a simple, low‑cost rover that improves on the rocker‑bogie suspension ...
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NASA tests advanced capabilities for moon and Mars rovers

A prototype rover built with a new design for tackling rugged terrain is helping teams refine capabilities that could one day ...
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Pete Theisinger, who led Mars rover missions for JPL, dies at 78

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78. During a ...