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Researchers from the University of Basel, ETH Zurich, and the European Space Agency have revolutionized planetary exploration with semi-autonomous robots. These bots, equipped with a robotic arm, camera, and spectrometer, can navigate and gather data from multiple targets on their own, significantly reducing mission times. In lab tests, the robot completed multi-target missions in just twelve to twenty-three minutes, outperforming traditional rovers that take forty-one minutes. This breakthrough could lead to faster mapping and support long-term human presence on the Moon or Mars.

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