NASA ATHLETE - Engadget

Its been a few years since we last checked in on NASA’s All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Terrestrial Explorer rover -- aka, Athlete. Now a half-scale working prototype standing 15 feet tall, weighing 2.5 tons (about 2,300 kg), and capable of a mph (2 kmph) top speed has been set loose for testing by its Jet Propulsion Laboratory creators. Subscribe to Engadget: and read more about the Athlete here: Engadget provides the web’s best consumer electronics gadget