Oakland robotics company shoots for the moon
July 13, 2009 by alex.gutierrez
Friday, July 10, 2009
Competition might not be the mother of invention, but it certainly has inspired robotic innovation at Astrobotic Technology Inc.
The space-age robotics company in Oakland already has announced its intent to win the $20 million Google X Prize by being the first to send a mobile robot to the moon and beam back to Earth video images, possibly of the Apollo 11 landing site.
Now Astrobotic has announced that it will compete for a $500,000 prize from NASA with a robot it hopes will dig and dump the most simulated lunar dirt during a 30-minute workout.
The NASA Regolith Excavation Challenge, set for Oct. 17-18…
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