{"id":364044,"date":"2026-10-04T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364044\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T07:18:10","slug":"queens-university-belfast-students-head-to-us-for-nasa-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364044\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen&#8217;s University Belfast students head to US for Nasa competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Could a robot designed by young engineering students from Northern Ireland end up on the Moon?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A team, from Queen&#8217;s University Belfast (QUB), are heading to Florida later this month to take part in a Nasa &#8216;lunabotics&#8217; competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lunabotics is a university-level competition for teams to use the Nasa systems engineering process to design, build, and operate a lunar robot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The students created a lab-built robot that they will bring to the competition to find out how it would deal with future moon missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The robots will be expected to dig up lunar material, drive over obstacles and use the material to form a wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Fitzpatrick, who&#8217;s studying for a PhD in mechanical engineering, said &#8220;it&#8217;s a great feeling&#8221; to have been invited and they&#8217;re looking forward to the opportunity to take part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could a robot designed by young engineering students from Northern Ireland end up on the Moon? A team,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-364044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}