Posts Tagged ‘robotics’
Open Luna Foundation
A stepped program of robotic missions that seek to return mankind to the lunar surface, and to do it in such a way that it is accessible to everyone. The Open Luna Foundation is open source and invites everyone (hardware providers, writers, wiki-editors, designers, etc.) to contribute and share what you want to do and [...]
Google Lunar X PRIZE
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth. Teams must be at least 90% privately funded and must be registered to compete by December 31, 2010. The first team to [...]
Regolith Excavation Challenge
The Regolith Excavation Challenge allows citizen inventors to participate by applying their talents to develop innovative solutions and new technologies to efficiently excavate lunar regolith.
The project is designed to promote the development of mechanical designs to excavate lunar regolith. [...]
Lunabotics Mining Competition
Advances in lunar regolith mining have the potential to significantly contribute to NASA space exploration operations. The Lunabotics Mining Competition uses excavation, a necessary first step towards extracting resources from the regolith and building bases on the Moon. The teams that can use telerobotic or autonomous operation to excavate the most lunar regolith simulant [...]