Italy Aims to Send Spider-Bot Swarm to Moon

SPACE.com — Italy Aims to Send Spider-Bot Swarm to Moon.

The idea to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize crystallized around the vision of Alberto Rovetta, a professor of robot mechanics at Politecnico di Milano. Rovetta’s designs for lunar robots resemble skittering spiders or crabs that could deploy as a swarm of mobile cameras and sensors on both legs and wheels.