A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other celestial body.

All three are trying to commercialize technology learned from developing planetary rovers and machines used in nuclear cleanups.

At increasing levels of sophistication the device may operate somewhat independently in matters such as obstacle avoidance, also commonly employed in planetary rovers.

Once there, they hear a strange sound on their communications system, which they assume to be interference from their planetary rover.

Scientific instruments can be found on board sounding rockets, satellites or planetary rovers and controlled by radiotelecommunication.

The published approaches are employed in unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, planetary rovers, newly emerging domestic robots and even inside the human body.

Before his death, Kemurdzhian traveled to the United States to visit with engineers from JPL and compare ideas on unmanned planetary rovers.

Fong et al. believed existing telerobotic practices, which centered on a human point of view, while sufficient for some domains were sub-optimal for operating multiple vehicles or controlling planetary rovers.

The students were asked to address in their essays how a planetary rover named for their heroine would translate these accomplishments to the Martian environment.

I remember sitting with one of my friends who was talking about building planetary rovers for NASA, and that seemed so wonderful.