Eight engineering students from Laurentian University are over the moon after winning an international NASA design competition, beating 40 other universities from around the world.
The team, made up of fourth-year students in mechanical engineering, designed and built a “lunabot” – a remote-controlled machine able to excavate lunar materials – which dug and deposited a world record 237.4 kilograms of synthetic moon materials in 15 minutes.
It's a shame NASA no longer has the capability of going to the moon--or even into outer space, shortly.
That is only true for manned spaceflight... Which I agree it is a shame they are temporally losing the capability to do... But they could still launch a small robot like this one all on their own.
That is only true for manned spaceflight... Which I agree it is a shame they are temporally losing the capability to do... But they could still launch a small robot like this one all on their own.
They could do it, but I imagine the idea would be to actually use the 'bot to build something humans could use.
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Canadians win NASA design competition - "Lunabot"
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