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Amina Khan | The Los Angeles Times

A team at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View has devised a strange, flexible "super ball bot" concept that could take a rough landing on another world’s surface and use the same structure to start rolling like a tumbleweed around the terrain.

This system would be completely different. It sports a semi-rigid but flexible structure, that can distribute the force from an impact at one point all over its system.

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