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Conducting scientific research in the ocean's surf zone can be challenging, as conventional watercraft get tossed all over the place. Well, what about using a remote-control tracked vehicle that crawls along the bottom? That's just what the Surf Rover is planned to be.

​​If you've ever wanted to own a Mars rover, this is likely the closest you're going to come. Created by a team from Poland's Wroclaw University of Technology, which has designed actual Mars rover prototypes, the Turtle Rover is … well, it's an Earth rover.

China's Chang'e-3 lunar lander, together with the Yu Tu (Jade Rabbit) lunar rover, successfully landed on the Moon's surface at 13:11 UT Saturday night. The event marks the first time that China has sent a spacecraft to soft land on the Moon's surface.

Moon Express has revealed the design of its MX-1 entry for the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Not a one-trick pony, the MX-1 is intended as the first of a series of robotic spacecraft that can carry out a multitude of tasks in Earth orbit as well as in deep space.

China's lunar probe Chang'e-3 and the Jade Rabbit lunar rover were successfully placed into an Earth-Moon transfer orbit on Monday. If all continues to go well, on December 14 Chang'e-3 will be the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon in 37 years.

Researchers at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) have crossed the business of pest control with the world of robotics by last month testing their robotic "tick rover" to determine its efficiency at removing the blood suckers from the lawn.

Teams from Puerto Rico won first place in both the high school and college divisions of the 2013 NASA Great Moonbuggy Race.

China's Polar Rover is claimed to be the first wind-powered autonomous vehicle used for research in Antarctica.

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The Chinese news agency Xinhua announced on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 that China will be sending its first unmanned lander to the Moon in the second half of 2013.

Williams F1 has increased its shareholding in Williams Hybrid Power to 78% on the back of favorable racetrack results and growing confidence its hybrid technology will find application in cars, buses, trains, ships and wind power generation.

A team of researchers from Goodyear and NASA has created a resilient airless tire for future missions to the moon and beyond.