Video games help NASA control robots, rovers[ Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:08:50 GMT ]We’ve got this story out of the Penny Arcade Expo -- It may not seem like the serious interplanetary science being done by NASA and the entertainment provided by video games would have much in common, but a team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that, more and more these days, the two go hand in hand. The team is not only using game technology to help us earthlings get an up close look at the latest mission to Mars, it's also using game technology to help better control NASA's robots and rovers.