VIDEO: MEET TURTLE, THE EARTH ROVER!
This is the closest you will get to owning a "Mars Rover"(if you ever wanted one that is). Created by a team from Poland's Wroclaw University of Technology, which has designed actual Mars rover prototypes. The Turtle Rover is an Earth Rover and is currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign.
The Turtle features a waterproof aluminium body, a front-facing HD camera, a Raspberry Pi microcontroller, and four individually-suspended knobby-tired wheels – each one of those wheels is powered by its own hub motor. The Turtle rover also comes with a top-mounted robotic gripper arm, although its open-source design allows other third-party accessories (such as GoPros or lights) to be added as desired.
It can run up to four hours on one 2 hour charge of its lithium-ion battery. The Turtle rover is controlled by an app on the user's smartphone or tablet, communicating via Wi-Fi for a distance of up to 200 meters. That app not only allows the user to see through the rover's camera and steer it accordingly, but it also lets them shoot stills and video, or operate appendages such as its arm.
The Turtle Rover can be seen in action in the pitch video below: