- NASA’s RASSOR robot is headed to the Moon, and it’s designed to dig into the surface.
- The robot uses a drum to scoop up lunar surface material and then transport it to new locations, but NASA hasn’t decided on a design for the drum.
- The space agency is accepting 3D models as submissions for a more efficient digging tool.
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A new era of lunar exploration and science is about to begin, but in order for NASA to make the most of it, it has to have all the right technology ready to roll. One of the gadgets NASA wants to send to the Moon is a digging robot. The agency has already made plenty of progress on this front, building the RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) bot and testing various versions of its hardware.
But NASA can’t do it alone, and it has issued a call for help in designing one very important component of the RASSOR robot: its collection drum.
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NASA needs your help to build a Moon digging robot originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 22:12:54 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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