{"id":448465,"date":"2026-05-27T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:37:15","slug":"students-build-moon-robots-for-nasas-2026-lunabotics-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448465\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Build Moon Robots for NASA\u2019s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team\u2019s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/learning-resources\/lunabotics-challenge\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge<\/a> competition on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex\u202fin Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Forty-seven teams from around the U.S. designed and built remote-controlled robots capable of traversing challenging lunar terrain while constructing regolith-based berm under conditions similar to those the agency will face as it returns to the lunar surface through Artemis.<\/p>\n<p>The Lunabotics Challenge invites students from higher education institutions to apply NASA\u2019s Systems Engineering principles to design and build a prototype off-world construction robot. Participants will develop a robot capable of performing construction operations that support future space exploration objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Ben Smegelsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Rauscher of Michigan Technological University prepares her team\u2019s prototype lunar robot for its turn during the finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-448465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}