AstroAnt was the Robotics + Automation category winner for the 2024 Create the Future Design Contest. Developed by the Space Exploration Initiative and Responsive Environments research group with support from Castrol, the AstroAnt is a miniature robot designed to perform inspections and diagnostic tasks on the external surfaces of spacecraft, rovers, and landers.
The Create the Future Design Contest was launched in 2002 by the publishers of Tech Briefs magazine to help stimulate and reward engineering innovation. All seven category winners received a workstation computer, courtesy of HP and Nvidia, and were eligible for the contest's grand prize of $25,000.
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