Makeover for Europe's Mars robot

[Chipstone306]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7234809.stm

 

[willy88]

How about "BoxBot"?

 

[computerex]

Ha ha now we can finally have robot wars on Mars! "American Opportunity vs. European nymph"!

 

[Urwumpe]

Lets choose the good old European tradition of giving good probes the wrong name. Let's call it "Tripod".

 

[silent_protagonist]

Lets choose the good old European tradition of giving good probes the wrong name. Let's call it "Tripod".

I wonder what H.G. Wells would have thought if he had known that in a hundred years we'd be the ones sending robots to Mars.