Sixteen robotics teams, ranging from university students to small businesses, are preparing to compete June 8-13 in the fourth running of the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge for a prize purse of $1.5 million.
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Watch them compete live June 10-12 on our Ustream feed here.
Here’s a look at where this year’s competitors are from:
Returning teams:
- Formicarum of Worcester, Massachusetts
- Survey of Los Angeles
- West Virginia University Mountaineers, Morgantown
- Gather of Alexandria, Virginia
- Lunambotics of Mexico City
- Middleman of Dunedin, Florida
- Oregon State University of Corvallis
- The Retrievers of Schenectady, New York
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rock Raiders of Troy, New York
- Wunderkammer of Topanga, California
New teams:
- Army of Angry Robots of Silicon Valley, California
- MAXed OUT of San Jose, California
- Mind and Iron of Needham, Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robotics Team of Cambridge
- Sirius of South Hadley, Massachusetts
- National Autonomous University of Mexico
Learn more about the challenge here.