Scientists looking for life on Mars are studying the driest desert on Earth. This month, Carnegie Mellon University's Zoë robot will traverse Chile’s near-uninhabitable Atacama Desert as part ...

Photo: David Wettergreen, Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute: Life in the Atacama Project - Funded by the NASA ASTEP Program (2012-2015). An autonomous rover named Zoë, designed and built ...

Scientists, chiefly from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and NASA’s Ames Research Center, developed the “Life in the Atacama” project for NASA’s Astrobiology Science and Technology for ...

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Caption The Zoe robot will use a one-meter drill, shown here protruding above the robot's solar cell deck, to search for subsurface life in Chile's Atacama Desert. Carnegie Mellon University's ...

The mission runs from August 22 to October 22. PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University researchers and theircolleagues from NASA's Ames Research Center, the universities ofTennessee, Arizona and ...

David Wettergreen, one of the lead investigators behind Zoë and a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, says that the robot has been an ongoing project for about a ...

The team will direct and monitor Zoë, an autonomous solar-powered rover developed at Carnegie Mellon, as it travels 180 kilometres ... The FI, developed by Alan Waggoner, director of the university's ...

is heading back to the world’s driest desert this month on a NASA astrobiology mission led by Carnegie Mellon University and the SETI Institute. This time, Zoë is equipped with a one-meter ...