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Article: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Will Pursue Google Lunar X Prize; Team Seeks $20 Million Prize for Landing Robot on Moon.
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- September 13, 2007
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Byline: Carnegie Mellon University
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University roboticist William "Red" Whittaker is assembling a team to land and operate a robot on the moon by 2012 with the intent of winning a $20 million challenge announced today by the X Prize Foundation and Google Inc.
The Google Lunar X Prize, www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar, is the richest international competition in history, with a total prize purse of $30 million. To win the grand prize of $20 million, a team must drive a robot for at least 500 meters on the lunar surface and transmit images to Earth. This will be the first private off-planet ...