7-28-14 Update: There they were, at 10,000 feet on the remote and rugged slopes of the Mauna Kea volcano on the big island of Hawaii, running their robot through the same volcanic soil NASA uses to ...
And robots shall tread upon the moon – or at least on a simulated lunar surface at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A ...
5-27-15 update: This year’s NASA Robotic Mining Competition was a struggle for Cyclone Space Mining. In the team’s first run in the mining arena, the left linear actuator wouldn’t lift the robot’s ...
Students from University of Virginia are building robots designed to mine lunar soil and ...
SOCORRO, N.M. — A team from New Mexico Tech just took home top prize at a space mining competition. Each team designed and built a robot that can be used for construction projects on the moon as a ...