Black Fox| The Memory-Maker

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The Challenge | The Memory-Maker

Traditional electronics do not work well on Venus, and memory is one of the biggest challenges. Your challenge is to develop mechanical approaches to accomplishing tasks normally done electronically within the context of space exploration.

Black Fox Robot

Explore planets with an automata robot

Black Fox

To analyze the sensors, as an alternative we propose to generate an opening in the robot. For example, the temperature sensor can be a spring, the spring depending on its temperature is its compression, therefore it is the opening of a mechanism. The mechanism can be detected from a satellite by signal processing. All sensors would have similar mechanisms, so we avoid having electronics in the robot. The important thing is that the satellite may be taking pictures of the robot in order to visualize the opening of each door corresponding to each sensor.

We also think that the robot can be controlled by an infrared from the satellite, thus allowing to control the position of the robot in venus from the satellite, avoiding the use of electronics.

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