Here's a website about a "real world" project relating to David Gump's Space
Robotics chapter in The High Frontier:

The Icebreaker Moon Rover is the brainchild of LunaCorp, a privately held
Arlington, Va.-based start-up that plans to launch the moon prospector in
late 2003.

FULL story at:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2589262,00.html

Kudos to Brock Pronko