NASA Awards $100,000 to Winning Team of Robot Challenge (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA has awarded $100,000 in prize money to the Mountaineers, a team from West Virginia University, Morgantown, for successfully completing Level 2 of the Sample Return Robot Challenge, part of the agency's Centennial Challenges prize program. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) hosted the event June 10-12 at its Worcester, Massachusetts, campus. This was the fourth year NASA and WPI held the Sample Robot Return competition. During Level 2 of NASA's Sample Return Robot Challenge, the robot designed and built by West Virginia University team The Mountaineers had two hours to return autonomously at least two undamaged...