Title:
Meet SpaceBok: The First Four-Legged Robot Set for Mars
Author:
Chris Young
Published:
Interesting Engineering, 17 June 2021
From the article:
SpaceBok, built by a team of scientists from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, is a small quadrupedal robot named after the springbok antelope, a report from Wired explains.
The robot was originally designed to leap and bound on the surface of the Moon in the same way astronauts did during the Apollo landings — Springboks are also known to "pronk" or leap into the air, though the exact reason is not known.