Lunabotics Team Competes in National Challenge
The University of Rochester fielded one of 47 teams from across the country that competed in the Lunabotics Challenge at the Kennedy Space Center in May.
The event invites college students to apply NASA’s systems engineering principles to design and prototype off-world construction robots. Inspired by the Artemis missions, students were tasked with creating autonomous robots that can build a berm, or a raised mound of soil used to provide structure, support, or protection.
The team ranked 26th for autonomy and 38th for berm construction. The students who attended the competition include Samuel Scheinbach ’27 (mechanical engineering), Gurami Mgebrishvili ’28 (electrical and computer engineering), Joshua Chou ’27 (mechanical engineering), Ezra Potter ’29 (optical engineering), and Sarah Jeong ’27 (computer science and philosophy), and they were joined by their faculty advisor Professor Tom Howard from the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Sounds like a blast!
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