Posted by tourdemars to Mars Express at November 13, 2003 12:00 PM

A MID Wales robot is on schedule to land on Mars on Christmas Day. Beagle 2 has just entered the latest stage in its mission to find traces of life on the red planet and the brains or "smart" software for the robot's arm has been created by six experts from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA), who have spent five years working on the project.