Independent robot builder Mark Curry, right, answers questions from 8th-graders from Sullivan Middle School in Lowell, Mass., about his robot named "MXR – Mark's Exploration Robot" during the NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge, held June 15, 2012, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. Curry and other builders com
Independent robot builder Mark Curry, right, answers questions from 8th-graders from Sullivan Middle School in Lowell, Mass., about his robot named “MXR – Mark’s Exploration Robot” during the NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge, held June 15, 2012, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. Curry and other builders competed for the $1.5 million NASA prize, building and operating autonomous robots that can identify, collect and return samples.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls› News release