Lunabotics Challenge
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NASA
Students Build Moon Robots for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge
Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team’s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Forty-seven teams from around the U.S. designed and built remote-controlled robots capable of traversing challenging lunar terrain while constructing regolith-based berm under conditions similar to…
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NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics: Winning Student Teams Engineering Lunar Future
Editor’s Note: This article was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, to correct the recipient of the Systems Engineering Leaps and Bounds Award. Resilient. Efficient. Autonomous. These are qualities NASA demands of its hardware, especially as the agency accelerates plans for a permanent Moon Base. NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge put those traits on full display, as…
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Calling All Innovators: Apply for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge
NASA invites teams from colleges, universities, as well as technical and vocational schools around the country to test their engineering skills in the 2025 Lunabotics Challenge. Applications open at 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 6. The competition is aimed at inspiring Artemis Generation students to explore science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for the benefit of humanity. Managed by…
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Press Releases
Artemis Generation Shines During NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge
Members of the Artemis Generation kicked up some simulated lunar dust as part of NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge, held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. When the dust settled, two teams emerged from Artemis Arena as the grand prize winners of this year’s competition. Teams from Iowa State University and…
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