ScienceDaily links to robo-limbs. When bouncing about in 1.622 m/s2, the momentum is the same as on Earth. Lunar visitors fall down a lot; and with all that spacesuit gear (which additionally has to be dustprotected) that's not as funny the seventh time it happens.
MIT is testing at JPL, Supernumerary Robotic Limbs, expecting a trademark "SuperLimbs". Which astronauts have to carry around too.
It's designed for our Moon. It will work even better for exploring the outside of a Phobos-tier major asteroid. It may help for a spin-gravity asteroid's upper layer, given Coriolis; although here I wonder if the buddy-system would just work better. Above a certain gravity, meanwhile; do Martians still want this extra gear?
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