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hi I'm Brian Wilcox and I'm the

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principal investigator for athlete

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athlete is the all-terrain heck slimmed

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extraterrestrial Explorer that we hope

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to fly to the moon in a decade or so i'm

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here at the JPL outdoor test facility

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and we're going to see a little bit

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about what athlete can do athlete is a

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six-legged vehicle with six wheels on

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the end of each of the legs the legs are

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connected to a hexagonal frame so that

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we can have a flat deck for cargo that

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we might carry on the moon could be

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either equipment or it could be a

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habitat every face of the hexagonal

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frame has a pair of stereo cameras that

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allow us to get a stereoscopic panoramic

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view of the surroundings of the vehicle

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and to display that to the operator back

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on earth so the operator it's as if

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they're standing in the middle of the

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vehicle looking out everywhere in every

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every leg has a real on the end and the

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wheel is relatively small because we

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know we can use it to roll efficiently

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on moderate and fairly hard to rain but

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we also know that we can lock it and use

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it as a foot if we get into soft or

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extreme terrain the wheel being as small

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as it is has a has a much smaller motor

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inside than it would have to have if it

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needed to go on the worst possible

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terrain that weight savings will allows

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us to put a tool adapter on every leg

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that allows us to adapt any kind of a

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power tool into the leg and to use this

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power take-off to to power that tool so

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in this case is a simple gripper and the

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gripper is actuated by the wheel when

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you turn the wheel it closes the gripper

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closes or opens gripper we also have a

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pair of again a stereo pair of cameras

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that we can use to look at the at the

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end of the tool and look at what the

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tool is doing so that you can see

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exactly what you need to see to use that

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this vehicle is just a prototype and

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it's only about half as big as the one

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that we expect to fly in another decade

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or so at that time we hope to land palos

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as much as 20 tons and with legs like

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these we could not only land them on the