NASA Adds $5M Prizes For Robots, Solar Spacecraft 17
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coondoggie writes "NASA today significantly expanded its Centennial Challenges program to include $5 million worth of new competitions to develop robots, small satellites, and solar powered spacecraft. One of the new competitions is the Sample Return Robot Challenge. Its purpose is to demonstrate a robot that can locate and retrieve geologic samples from wide and varied terrain without human control. This challenge has a prize purse of $1.5 million. The objectives are to encourage innovations in automatic navigation and robotic manipulator technologies."
Sweet! (Score:3, Funny)
Hey man, look at what I just found! They were just sitting over there on that wall, a whole pile of free legos!
Re:NASA Has Money? (Score:3, Funny)
You didn't read the fine print in the rules of the Challenges, which clearly announces:
1) In which Senators' states the contests will be held, and . . .
2) What percentages of components, from which states the contestants must use . . .