The Florida Space Institute is proud to be hosting the 2025 NASA Lunabotics Qualification Challenge from May 15-18 at the Exolith® Lab. The NASA Lunabotics Challenge is a cutting-edge event that brings together talented university teams from across the country to develop and deploy robots capable of utilizing lunar regolith in a simulated lunar environment.
UCFRF’s Lunabotics Challenge is a hands-on experience created by NASA in support of the ARTEMIS program. Its goal is to design and build a prototype robot capable of performing operations on a simulated lunar regolith surface. The 2025 qualification challenge will be held at the Florida Space Institute’s Exolith Lab® at The University of Central Florida in Orlando. The arena is located inside the Exolith Lab® Regolith Bin, which is filled with Lunar Highlands Simulant (LHS-2E). The top 10 scoring teams will also be invited to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Merritt Island, Florida to compete on-site at the Artemis Arena located in the Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education Building.
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