Lightweight Rover Unit (LRU)

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The LRU (Lightweight Rover Unit) is the prototype of a semi-autonomous robot for exploring the Moon or Mars. State-of-the-art technologies developed at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, the drive and steering units whose motors have already proven their space capability on the ISS for five years in the ROKVISS experiment.

Credit: Esther Horvath