During the tests, the Mars Sample Fetch Rover demonstrator model named Codi received coordinates from a simulated ground control station to direct it to where simulated Mars samples had been stashed.

Aerospace giant Airbus will scope the concept for a surface "fetch rover" at its Stevenage centre north of London. Esa and the American space agency (Nasa) expect to send the sample-return ...

The Mars Sample Return campaign will begin in earnest ... shop for firing the sealed samples from the surface. A “fetch” rover built by the ESA would travel around and collect the samples ...

To confirm its catch, the rover beamed photos back to mission controllers on Thursday showing its sample-collection tube filled. "Now that is one beautifully perfect cored sample, if I do say so ...