Digging Teams Claim Victory in NASA Regolith Competition “Nineteen teams pushed their robotic competitors to the limit and three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in NASA prizes for their hard work and innovation at this year’s Regolith Excavation Challenge held at NASA’s Ames Research Center on Moffett Field. After two days of intense competitive drama, organizers conferred Paul’s Robotics of Worcester, MA, with the first place title, second went […]

2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge “A record number of entrants have signed up to compete in the 2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge and its whopping $750,000 prize money. Twenty-three teams have fulfilled the application requirements to compete in the October 17 and 18 event at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field in Mountain View. The competition requires teams to build a roving lunar excavator that can “navigate, excavate, and transfer […]