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Toyota To Send Robots To The Moon
Toyota recently unveiled a presentation called, “Realization of Moon Exploration Using Advanced Robots by 2020.”.
This is part of the Toyota Partner Robot program. The robots start out by helping us humans on Earth, but then move to the Moon. Supposedly these robots will have the following abilities.
joints are protected from regolith
small capacity solar battery onboard
internal [...]
Regolith Excavation Challenge Winners
The Regolith Excavation Challenge is now over. The what? – You know, that challenge to see how much moon dirt a moon chucker could chuck if a moon chucker could chuck moon dirt.
Well, the winner shown here is Moonraker from Paul’s Robotics. From the Regolith blog:
The entire $750,000 prize purse for the 2009 Regolith Excavation [...]
New Lunar Rover
Astrobotic Technology has revealed more information about its lunar rover. This company is led by William “Red” Whitaker and hopes to win the $20 million Lunar X Prize.
Earlier this month Astrobotic Technology unveiled the Moon Digger that they hope to use to win The NASA Regolith Excavation Challenge.
The new rover will be used to travel [...]
Moon Diggers
Astrobotic Technology, with some help from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon, has created a robot to compete in the The NASA Regolith Excavation Challenge. The challenge will award $500,00 for the robot that can dump the most simulated moon dirt in 30 minutes.
Led by Dr. William “Red” Whittaker, Astrobotics main focus is still developing [...]