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/
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NASA Opens Cube Quest Challenge for Largest-Ever Prize of $5 Million
Registration now is open for NASA's Cube Quest Challenge, the agency’s first in-space competition that offers the agency’s largest-ever prize purse.
Competitors have a shot at a share of $5 million in prize money and an opportunity to participate in space exploration and technology development, to include a chance at flying their very own CubeSat to the moon and beyond as secondary payload on the first integrated flight of NASA's Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
Read more about the CubeQuest Challenge and how to join!:
www.nasa.gov/press/2014/november/nasa-opens-cube-quest-challenge-for-largest-ever-prize-of-5-million-0/
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The team Mountaineers robot is seen as it attempts the level one challenge during the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. Eighteen teams are competing for a $1.5 million NASA prize purse. Teams will be required to demonstrate autonomous robots that can locate and collect samples from a wide and varied terrain, operating without human control. The objective of this NASA-WPI Centennial Challenge is to encourage innovations in autonomous navigation and robotics technologies. Innovations stemming from the challenge may improve NASA's capability to explore a variety of destinations in space, as well as enhance the nation's robotic technology for use in industries and applications on Earth.
Robotics teams from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Estonia competed for $1.5 million in prize money at the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot competition this June. Seventeen teams arrived to compete, 14 passed inspection and took to the challenge field on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Read full article:
www.nasa.gov/centennial_challenges/sample_return_robot/sr...
Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Sample Return Robot website:
www.nasa.gov/robot
Sample Return Robot Flickr album:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157645119986112/
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Students watch a rocket launch during the 2013-14 NASA Student Launch rocketry competition at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Tooele County, Utah. Sixteen teams, comprised of some 250 student participants from 15 states, launched rockets of their own design, complete with three working science and engineering payloads apiece, cheered on by approximately 500 spectators. The annual NASA education event, designed to inspire young people to pursue studies and careers in the "STEM" fields -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- is organized by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and sponsored by ATK Aerospace Group of Magna, Utah.
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The Oregon State University Mars Rover Team's robot is seen during level one competition at the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot Challenge, Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. Eighteen teams are competing for a $1.5 million NASA prize purse. Teams will be required to demonstrate autonomous robots that can locate and collect samples from a wide and varied terrain, operating without human control. The objective of this NASA-WPI Centennial Challenge is to encourage innovations in autonomous navigation and robotics technologies. Innovations stemming from the challenge may improve NASA's capability to explore a variety of destinations in space, as well as enhance the nation's robotic technology for use in industries and applications on Earth.
More about NASA's Sample Return Robot Challenge:
Robotics teams from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Estonia competed for $1.5 million in prize money at the 2014 NASA Centennial Challenges Sample Return Robot competition this June. Seventeen teams arrived to compete, 14 passed inspection and took to the challenge field on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute's (WPI) campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Read full article:
www.nasa.gov/centennial_challenges/sample_return_robot/sr...
Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Sample Return Robot website:
www.nasa.gov/robot
Sample Return Robot Flickr album:
www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157645119986112/
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