The Cool Robot was developed at Dartmouth through a National Science Foundation Small Grant for Exploratory Research and an NSF Arctic Science grant. It is an electric robot, weighing only 66 kg, with an independent motor for each of its four wheels. However, being encased in a box of five solar panels, the Cool Robot does not require battery swaps. Instead, the rover can operate continuously, 24 hours a day, during the peak of summer in Greenland (approximately May through July) and the peak of summer in Antarctica (approximately November through January). This allows for greater autonomy and freedom for the robot to collect data over large transects and extended grid patterns on the ice sheet. Similar to the Yeti robot, the Cool Robot tows the ground penetrating radar in a sled behind the rover, but the sled also contains a solar panel for powering the instruments and the two Nissan Leaf batteries used to store the surplus power collected by the PV panels.