Robots Searching for Life on Saturn’s Moon with Matt Travers

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🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Could we use robots to explore the oceans of Enceladus? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Harrison Greenbaum dive deep into the EELS Project, sending a snake-like robot to Enceladus with Matthew Travers, a roboticist at the Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.

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0:00.0	So Harrison we had a roboticist in my office from the Carnegie robotics lab.
0:05.2	This is Institute. It was an Institute. Yeah, it was amazing. I mean they might
0:09.3	replay this video when the robots take over and go they could have stopped them then.
0:15.0	So this this uh...
0:16.0	That was the key point in this was a part of the timeline where things went dark.
0:19.3	timeline of civilization.
0:21.3	Yeah.
0:22.3	Both exciting and terrifying what can happen in a robotics lab.
0:27.0	But what we're trying to do is put robotics in the service of exploration of space.
0:32.0	And that's most of what that conversation was about.
0:35.0	There could be life on Saturn.
0:36.4	Yeah, yeah, we'll keep looking.
0:37.5	All right, coming up on Star Talk.
0:41.5	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:43.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:48.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:52.0	This. Start Talk begins right now.
0:56.0	This is Star Talk. Neil Degrass Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
1:00.0	I've got with me as my comedic co-host, Harrison Greenbound,
1:03.7	Harrison, welcome back.
1:05.3	Thank you, it's so nice to be back.
1:06.9	You would last year, BC, before COVID.
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