If you don’t know, Google has a contest call the Lunar X Prize which “is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth.” (Google Lunar X Prize Website)
One team competing for the prize is at Carnegie Mellon University. Known for their robotics program and their head roboticist Red Widdiker who has lead team for the Darpa Grand Challenge and designed robots to help clean up nuclear accidents, Red has now set his sights on the moon.
The project, called “The Red Rover” is being built and they hope to have it ready for launch in 2012.
