NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

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Topic: NASA Space Robotics Centennial Challenge

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posted 08-18-2016 08:38 AM

NASA's Centennial Challenges Program on Tuesday (Aug. 15) opened registration for a new competition aimed at developing "the capabilities of humanoid robots to help astronauts on the journey to Mars," reports PC Magazine.

Teams competing in the Space Robots Challenge must program a virtual robot, modeled after NASA's Robonaut 5 (R5), to complete a series of complex tasks in a simulated Mars environment. Winners will take home $1 million.
The competition will be held in a virtual environment, and each team's R5 will be challenged to resolve the aftermath of a dust storm that has damaged a Martian habitat. Teams will have three objectives: align a communications dish, repair a solar array, and fix a habitat leak. Making things even harder, teams will have to overcome "periods of latency to represent communications delay from Earth to Mars."

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