Building the Robots of Mars and Running them from Manhattan

From Ars Technica:

After getting off the subway at 34th Street, I headed west past Macy's and continued walking as the storefronts gradually gave way to office towers. As the Hudson came into view, I stepped into a generic office building and headed for the seventh floor, finally stepping into an office that is anything but generic-a fact made obvious by the scale model of a Martian rover sitting in the lobby, complete with reddish rocks for it to drill. I'd found the home of Honeybee Robotics, a company that has made a name for itself by making key components of NASA's incredibly successful Mars rovers. And, in talking with co-founder Steve Gorevan, I learned how someone who got his start refurbishing pianos ended up setting the agenda on another planet from an office in Midtown Manhattan.

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