The 2015 technical roadmap from NASA is a sprawling series of documents designed to support the space agency’s missions—including a trip to Mars—as well as develop new technologies to make computers that can withstand radiation.
In this fifth edition, we are excited to feature robot progress in human-robot interaction, agile movement, enhanced training methods, soft robotics, brain surgery, medical navigation, and ecological research.
Researchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on that work, creating a “brainless” soft robot that can navigate more complex and dynamic environments.