I get to play in the sandbox with robots.
Meet Colin Creager, a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. Colin is focusing on developing tires that can be used on other worlds. These tires use coil springs made of a special shape memory alloy that will let rovers move across sharp jagged rocks or through soft sand on the Moon or Mars. To learn more about how NASA is reinventing the wheel, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/wheels/