“The vision was simple – let anyone on Earth experience the Moon live through the eyes of a robot,” explained team leader Daniel Shafrir.
“We weren’t just going to go to the Moon. We are going to bring the Moon back,” he added.
The telepresence robot, nicknamed Andy after university founder Andrew Carnegie, can be controlled by an operator’s head.
Using an Oculus Rift headset, the movements of the user’s head are tracked and sent back to Andy’s camera so that it will match where the user is looking.
“Imagine the feeling of looking out and seeing rocks and craters billions of years old. Turn your head to the right and you see the dark expanse of space. Turn your head to the left and you see home, Earth,” said Mr Shafrir.
First we virtually take the Moon…
Get on this Google. Every planet. Every moon. Every near earth asteroid.
Whoop… Deploy probe.
While we build the infrastructure to get our meat bodies out there afk.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 