NASA’s new robot challenge - The Space Review - Ben Brockert discusses the Sample Return Robot Challenge. Armadillo SuperMod test at full-throttle - RLV News - Ben also shows what Armadillo Aerospace is doing. You can see more from Armadillo in other recent RLV News posts. Unreasonable UAV aerial videography - RLV News - Continuing the coverage of...
DATE: 06-08-2011 PROJECT: MOONBOTS 2.0 JUST ANNOUNCED: REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 26 One year after the first successful MoonBots mission, we return with new robots and challenges to another former landing site of missions long past. We learned a lot from our missions last year, but this year is a little bit different. In...
Just announced! We want students from all over the world to register in MoonBots 2.0. To celebrate Registration and Phase One of the MoonBots Challenge, each team member will receive a LEGO Space Robot Keychain from LEGO!!! Help spread the word about this fantastic gift!
One of our favorite aspects of the MoonBots contest is seeing students interact with real Google Lunar X PRIZE teams. Our friends at Evadot recently captured a conversation between MoonBots X-Treme Team and the Rocket City Space Pioneers last week in a podcast, and it is definitely worth listening to: check it out here! Much like the GLXP teams,...
NASA Requires Source Code from Robot Challenge Entrants - Robotic Trends on the Sample Return Robot Challenge Draft Rules Feedback - WPI responds to some of the concerns from their comments sections and articles like the Robotic Trends one. Earth at the Movies - NASA Earth Observatory on the 2011 NASA Earth Day Video Contest with the theme The Home...
On an ordinary work day last December, my email client chimes and a message appears with an intriguing subject line: “Zero G”. I blink as I read the note -- are my eyes deceiving me? In front of me is a request to fly as a journalist for a NASA microgravity student team. With fingers typing at speeds that likely almost break the sound barrier,...
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