| In 2005 we witnessed the Mars Rover just keep on | | | | innovative minds to it and use their human intent to |
| trucking like the Energizer Bunny, putting even the | | | | press on. Truly 2005 was an amazing year for robotic |
| famous "takes licking and keeps on ticking" Timex | | | | researchers to strut their stuff. |
| Watch commercials to shame. Robotics have certainly | | | | In 2006 we will see new designs in robotic exploration |
| made incredible strides here on Earth with robotic | | | | robots, once which will be spherical and use haptics |
| surveillance aircraft, autonomous cars cruising | | | | methods for propulsion moving the inside center of |
| driverless through the harsh desert, vacuuming your | | | | gravity to move along. We will also see protruding |
| home and even in factories building the next generation | | | | spiked wheels to power up steeper terrain and |
| of hybrid automobiles. | | | | systems, which can lift the rovers over rocks and |
| But Robotics have also made their mark on Martian | | | | steep embankments. We will also see self-assembly |
| Soil, on the Surface of Mars with tiny tracks from six | | | | techniques for moving over rock formations, crossing |
| mechanical wheels moving over hills and dales and | | | | gullies and assisting in Lunar Colony, mining |
| rough terrain. 2005 was a year when our robotic | | | | manufacturing plant and life support construction for |
| scientists proved to this world and the next that there | | | | later human arrivals. We will see these concepts put |
| is nothing that humans cannot do, once they put their | | | | forth in realistic terms. |