Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface

NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S. college and university student teams to virtually map and explore using a digital twin of NASA’s In-Situ Resource Utilization Pilot Excavator (IPEx).  The winning team successfully demonstrated the design and functionality of their autonomous agent, or software that performs […]
Posted on May 16, 2025
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