Twenty robotics teams, ranging from university students to small businesses, are preparing to compete June 8-13 in the fourth running of the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge for a prize purse of $1.5 million.
Watch them compete live June 10-12 on our Ustream feed here:
www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc
Here’s a look at where this year’s competitors are from:
Returning teams:
Formicarum of Worcester, Massachusetts
Survey of Los Angeles
West Virginia University Mountaineers, Morgantown
Gather of Alexandria, Virginia
Lunambotics of Mexico City
Middleman of Dunedin, Florida
Oregon State University of Corvallis
The Retrievers of Schenectady, New York
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rock Raiders of Troy, New York
Wunderkammer of Topanga, California
New teams:
Army of Angry Robots of Silicon Valley, California
DT Bozzelli of Ann Arbor, Michigan
MAXed OUT of San Jose, California
Mind and Iron of Needham, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robotics Team of Cambridge
RoboRetrievers of Tampa, Florida
Sirius of South Hadley, Massachusetts
Smart Move of Clearwater, Florida
Smart Tools of Gurnee, Illinois
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Learn more about the challenge here:
wp.wpi.edu/challenge/ 