The Utah Robotic Mining Project

05/18/2018

The Utah Robotic Mining Project is now Utah Student Robotics! This renaming will allow us to branch out into other new and exciting projects - feel free to head over there and give the new page a like!

05/21/2017

Watch us compete online here! From May 22nd - 26th!

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05/01/2017

The Utah Robotic Mining Project is pleased to return to represent the University of the Utah in the 2017 NASA Robotic Mining Competition. This is the third year that the University has fielded a team, and we are excited come back with a new design; building on what we learned from previous competition years. After achieving the Judge’s Innovation Award and mining more regolith that any other team last year, we have high hopes to do even better this year with a fully autonomous robot. The team includes students from many disciplines including computer engineering, mechanical engineering, mining engineering, computer science, and electrical engineering. Several team members are continuing to participate from our first year, and this project has been a success in supporting a few seniors with work for their senior design project and senior thesis. The team would like to thank the Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium, Northrop Grumman, and our other sponsors for providing the resources necessary to make the project a possibility. The Utah Robotic Mining Project is looking forward to a wonderful competition and coming back in future years to participate in the tremendous opportunity for learning and innovation that this competition provides.

03/09/2017

Planning on it!

Teams of undergraduate and graduate students from throughout the nation recently gathered at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to demonstrate their excava...

09/10/2016

08/04/2016

08/04/2016

08/01/2016

We'll be there!

07/08/2016

We got to watch NASA test the SLS rocket booster at the Orbital ATK test facility in Promontory. This is the rocket that will take us to Mars. Way cool!

Here is a link to the video: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

07/08/2016

We had a great time at the Explore Space event at the Glendale library!

06/09/2016

ULA Is launching their Delta IV heavy for the 9th time in the past decade. Launch is rescheduled for 12:55 MDT! Tune in to watch here: http://www.ulalaunch.com/webcast.aspx

04/04/2016

Check out our CAD design! Many more hours went into this model than the actual robot build. This design can be used to test how the robot balances and moves in operation, which helps with final design and build.