Lunar Rover Botball Design Challenge
Evergreen Valley High School Robotics: 08-0217
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What is the design challenge?
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During the 1960s and 1970s twelve people, several robot landers, three cars, and two mobile robots operated successfully on the Moon. But for the past 35 years, there has been little going on the Lunar surface. On September 13, 2007, the X PRIZE Foundation announced a contest with prizes in the tens of millions of dollars for the first private organization to land on the Moon and operate a mobile robot that travels at least 500 meters from the landing site. Aerospace companies know how to build rockets and spacecraft — but mobile robots is a new area for most of them. That’s where Botball students can help. Your challenge is to create a conceptual design for a robot to help win this contest!