Mars Dogs: AI Powered Autonomous Robot Concept for Mars - [R&D from NASA’s Team CoSTAR]

This research was presented by NASA JPL’s Team CoSTAR at the AGU Fall 2020 Conference. We presented the results of Martian Analog testing with our autonomous quadruped that we call Au-Spot. Au-Spot is comprised of the base locomotion platform from Boston Dynamics and is powered by NASA JPL’s “NeBula“ AI package which endows robots with a belief system and higher-levels of autonomy. Contact: thomastouma13@ Team website: This research was partially carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Government sponsorship acknowledged. © 2020. All Rights reserved.