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NASA Robotic Mining Competition 2015
The past week has been extremely busy as we hit the road to take our new robot, unofficially dubbed “Moonshot”, across the country from our campus in Rolla, Missouri to NASA’s Robotic Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast. The competition involved remotely controlling our mining robot to make it collect sandy regolith (mineral dust) from a simulated Martian surface and depositing as much of it as we could in a collection bin. We were among teams Read more…