Interviews

Robohub Podcast – Exploring Venus with a Clockwork Rover, with Jonathan Sauder

Listen to another podcast from the team at Robohub. More podcasts from them can be found here.

In this episode, Lilly interviews Jonathan Sauder, the Principal Investigator of a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project to design a rover for the surface of Venus. Sauder explains why exploring Venus is important and why previous surface missions have only lasted a few hours. They discuss his innovative wheeled-robot concept, a hybrid automaton rover which would be mostly mechanical and powered by wind.

Jonathan Sauder is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fellow and Senior Mechatronics Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab in the Technology Infusion Group focused on innovative concepts.  He is also a lecturer of “Design Theory and Methodology” and “Advanced Mechanical Design” at the University of Southern California, where he received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering.

Lillian Clark

Lilly Clark is a PhD Student in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California.

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