Two full-scale growth mannequin rovers which are a part of NASA’s CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) expertise demonstration drive within the Mars Yard on the company’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in August 2023. The mission is designed to point out {that a} group of robotic spacecraft can work collectively as a workforce to perform duties and file knowledge autonomously – with out specific instructions from mission controllers on Earth.