UCSC Autonomous Rover

Dig into ALL the excitement and action of the 2013 Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge in the latest episode of NASA 360, released today! http://1.usa.gov/1ezqi3l

http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/06/corporate-partners.html

An interesting write up from one of the judges of SRR 2013

When the 'Bots Came Marching In... Tech and Humanity Met NewStoneSoup VT had the privilege of judging the 2013 NASA Centennial Challenge, at Worcester Polytech Institute, Worcester MA:...

Senior Design Competition

Last night, we were ranked the second senior project team in class of 2012-2013. We are grateful and humbled by this recognition.

Also, this brings a closure to our 6+ months efforts to pursue the goals of the competition and promote our engineering program, world wide.

We would hope next year's students take on the leadership and continue participating in these challenges. We also hope that the school of engineering to provide more funding for senior projects to succeed.

In the end, we would like to thank our mentors and professors who have been passionately providing guidance, support, and insight:

Paul Naud
Professor Mircea Teodorescu
Professor John Vesecky

NASA Centennial Challenges group photo
Photo Credit: (NASA /Bill Ingalls)

NASA 360 is proud to be a part of NASA's 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge. Here's to those talented people who are helping make it a success!

Members of the University California Santa Cruz Autonomous Rover Team work on their robot in the practice field during the NASA 2013 Sample Return Robot Challenge, Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. The UCSC team is one of eleven teams competing for $1.5 million. Teams will be required to demonstrate a robot that can locate and collect geologic samples from a wide and varied terrain, operating without human control. The objective of this NASA-WPI Centennial Challenge is to encourage innovations in autonomous navigation and robotics technologies. Innovations stemming from the challenge could improve NASA's capability to explore a variety of destinations in space, as well as enhance the nation's robotic technology for use in industries and applications on Earth. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

We attended WPI/NASA's very nice awards ceremony dinner tonight. Tomorrow morning we're getting on the plane to head back to Santa Cruz with the rover in our checked luggage :)

NASA 360 Presents: Rover Madness A quick peek at the action from this year's Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge. Look for the episode this summer.

Here we are with Lisa May, NASA's MAVEN program executive.