NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, second from left, and WPI President Laurie Leshin, center, listen Jeffrey Gorges of the Mind & Iron team, left, as he describes his teams robot during a tour of the robot pits at the 2016 Sample Return Robot Challenge on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, teams are competing for a $ million NASA prize purse. Teams will be 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 C
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, second from left, and WPI President Laurie Leshin, center, listen Jeffrey Gorges of the Mind & Iron team, left, as he describes his teams robot during a tour of the robot pits at the 2016 Sample Return Robot Challenge on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, teams are competing for a $ million NASA prize purse. Teams will be 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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