{"id":2134,"date":"2025-10-20T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/skywalker-tests-robotic-crawling-at-estec\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:04:00","slug":"skywalker-tests-robotic-crawling-at-estec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/skywalker-tests-robotic-crawling-at-estec\/","title":{"rendered":"SKYWALKER tests robotic crawling at ESTEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/10\/the_skywalker_robotic_arm_mounted_on_the_mantis_platform\/26932934-1-eng-GB\/The_SKYWALKER_robotic_arm_mounted_on_the_MANTIS_platform_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"The SKYWALKER team's robotic arm, mounted on the MANTIS platform, autonomously inserts itself into the anchor point\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy_Experiments_programme\/About_the_ESA_Academy_Experiments_programme\" target=\"_blank\">ESA Academy Experiments programme<\/a>, the SKYWALKER student team from Aalborg University, Denmark, successfully tested a smart algorithm to help a robotic arm on a floating platform move in microgravity-like conditions. The test campaign took place in late September 2025 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy_Experiments_programme\/Orbital_Robotics_Lab\" target=\"_blank\">ESA ESTEC\u2019s Orbital Robotics Lab<\/a>. This work is paving the way for future robots to operate independently in space\u2014building, repairing, and maintaining structures.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the SKYWALKER student team from Aalborg University, Denmark, successfully tested a smart algorithm to help a robotic arm on a floating platform move in microgravity-like conditions. The test campaign took place in late September 2025 at ESA ESTEC\u2019s Orbital Robotics Lab. This work is paving the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}