Wednesday, September 28, 2016

NASA Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge

Sorry for not reporting anything for a few years... That's because we were busy! We spent three years building an autonomous rover, named Cataglyphis, that can go around, find samples, and bring them back!

Here is how Cataglyphis looks like in 2014 (photo: NASA):
We built it in 7 months and it completed Level-1 challenge in the first year.
In 2015, we made many updates (photo: NASA):
It completed Level-2 challenge and won us a $100,000 prize
In 2016, we changed a few more things:
Cataglyphis won the final challenge with a $750,000 prize (photo: NASA)!
See our website for more information: http://www2.statler.wvu.edu/~irl/index.html
or you can watch a video on YouTube:


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