
ALT The Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) at the Roverscape facility. Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres

ALT The Ames Coded Structures Lab demonstrates the operation of the Automated Reconfigurable Mission Adaptive Digital Assembly Systems (ARMADAS) at the Roverscape. View of the Scaling Omni-directional Lattice Locomoting Explorer (SOLL-E, pronounced “Sully”) looking through the lattice structure of the ARMADAS tower. Credit: NASA/Don Richey

ALT This artist's concept shows the autonomous assembly of critical infrastructure needed for a long-duration human presence on the Moon. Here, robots are using modular building blocks to construct structures that can protect crew, science facilities, or equipment from space radiation and micrometeoroids. Robots are building a large antenna atop a tower as part of a lunar communications network. Credit: NASA































































