MTR - A planetary surface exploration rover - My PhD

Wow, this is just fantastic...great work and awesome design :)

Hi, 

New user, been browsing the site for a few days and finally joined...

First let me say, I love the robot, it looks and moves great...

I was watching how the robot moves and I am thinking, it looks like each wheel moves

with its own engine, would it be possible to create some kind of electronic transmission

so that, when all wheels are moving on the same direction and speed (i.e. not turning, just

moving forward) you can do that with a single engine instead ? (it would require to move the

engines to the main body)

That way you would use less power when just moving forward, and you could alternate motors

to avoid overheating them...it also becomes a more resilient system, agreed you would loose

the abiliity to make some movements, but you would not loose the entire robot if a single 

motor fails.

Regards !

So how do you get to be a professional roboticist? From what I've read, you need to be an electrical and mechanical engeneer and a programmer. But what courses do I need to do? I'm still in highschool, but I'm wondering what I should consider in college and stuff.

Thanks! And by the way you've made a very cool robot. I almost thought it came from NASA ;)

what was your strategy in school and university for giving parallel attention to your robotics works and studying?

you can also contact me by e-mail if had any recommendation on education.

thx