The four-legged robot Olympus
Meet Olympus, a four-legged robot developed and built by Jørgen Anker Olsen, visiting PhD researcher from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Mounted upside down to a floating platform at the European Space Agency’s ORBIT facility, Olympus gets to experience simulated microgravity in two dimensions, allowing Jørgen to better understand how the robot would move under conditions it was created for: the gravity on Mars, which is about 2.5 times weaker than Earth’s gravity.
[Image description: This is a close-up photo of a robotic device with four legs. Each leg consists of two limbs with a bending joint, connected at the bottom in a paw-like patch. The robot is made of black and grey metal, and it is mounted upside down on a testing platform, with its legs extending up. In the background, a laboratory environment is partially visible. The room is brightly lit, with light grey floor, a white wall on the left side and a blurred black poster on the right side.]
The four-legged robot Olympus on Europe’s flattest floor
Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity
The four-legged robot Olympus on ESA’s Mars yard
Student teams in ESTEC’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory
