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A job for the droids?

Nature volume 428, pages 888–890 (2004)Cite this article

If NASA wants to build a Moon base or put human footprints on Mars, its astronauts are going to need a lot of help from robots. Does Houston have the technology? Tony Reichhardt investigates.

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