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MINDS-i Lunar Rover 3-in-1 Kit If you are looking for a mobile, outdoor platform for your next robot project, or perhaps a chassis for use in a RoboMagellan or similar robotics competition, you need to check this platform out. The MINDS-i Rover is all new and we find it to be of significant value.
NASA's NEW SPACE POLICY NASA has just announced new plans for a familiar type of robot spacecraft. Of intimate interest to robot builders is NASA’s new philosophy of asking for help from the outside world, and of creating a long-range plan in which a wide variety of space robots will be inserted into an integrated space expansion strategy leading ultimately to human interplanetary flight.
MOONRAKER - WINNER OF THE 2009 NASA LUNAR REGOLITH EXCAVATION CHALLENGE! Moonraker, a robot designed by Paul’s Robotics of Worcester, MA, recently won the 2009 NASA Lunar Regolith Excavation Challenge. The event, a NASA Centennial Challenge, attracted 23 teams from the United States and Canada to compete for the top prize of $500,000. Organized by the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI), the event took place at NASA Ames Research Park in California on October 17 and 18, 2009.