Challenge technical advisor at WPI Ken Stafford, left in blue shirt, challenge event manager at WPI Colleen Shaver, second from right in blue shirt, and Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate Dennis Andrucyk, pose for a picture with members of team MAXed Out (left to right in green shirts) Girts Linde, Bill Spangler, Greg Maxwell, and David Hough, after being awarded second place in the 2016 Sample Return Robot Challenge on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. challenge event manager at WPI Colleen Shaver
Challenge technical advisor at WPI Ken Stafford, left in blue shirt, challenge event manager at WPI Colleen Shaver, second from right in blue shirt, and Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate Dennis Andrucyk, pose for a picture with members of team MAXed Out (left to right in green shirts) Girts Linde, Bill Spangler, Greg Maxwell, and David Hough, after being awarded second place in the 2016 Sample Return Robot Challenge on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. challenge event manager at WPI Colleen Shaver During the competition teams were required to demonstrate autonomous robots that can locate and collect samples from a wide and varied terrain, operating without human control. The objective of this NASA-WPI Centennial Challenge is to encourage innovations in autonomous navigation and robotics technologies. Innovations stemming from the challenge may improve NASA's capability to explore a variety of destinations in space, as well as enhance the nation's robotic technology for use in industries and applications on Earth.
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