NASA'S lunar ATHLETE Rover, also known as the All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, gets its groove on in this video created by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ATHLETE can walk, roll, and -- in this sped-up footage -- dance.
For more, see 10 Awesome Videos of Actual Robots Dancing.
For more videos from NASA, visit the Internet Archive.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and general manager of Atlantic Studios at The Atlantic.