Robotics Competition Scenes

Photographs capturing various robotic teams competing in engineering challenges, highlighting collaborative technology and innovation.

Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) held at New York University, New York City, New York State, USA
Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) held at New York University, New York City, New York State, USA
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A team of competitors readies its robotic vehicle taking part in the racing portion of NASA's Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Although much of the competition was based on a vehicle's ability to dig soil, the festivities also included head-to-head runs for the robotic craft.
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Students from the University of Arkansas prepare their robot for its turn to dig in the mining arena during NASAs LUNABOTICS competition on May 24, 2022, at the Center for Space Education near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. More than 35 teams from around the U.S. have designed and built remote-controlled robots for the mining competition. Teams use their autonomous or remote-controlled robots to maneuver and dig in a supersized sandbox filled with rocks and simulated lunar soil, or regolith. The objective of the challenge is to see which teams robot can collect and deposit the most rocky regolith within a specified amount of time.
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Student teams direct their robots on the playing field during the NASA/KSC FIRST Southeastern Regional event held March 1-3, 2001. Robot number 582 is by the Viking Electros, W.M. Raines High School, Jacksonville, Fla. Number 459 is by Eastside High School, Gainesville, Fla. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) events are held nationwide, pitting robots against each other and the clock on a playing field. Many teams are sponsored by corporations and academic institutions. There are 27 teams throughout the State of Florida who are competing. KSC, which sponsors nine teams, has held the regional event for two years
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Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) held at New York University, New York City, New York State, USA
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Lunabotics Opening Day
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - This newly designed glove, one of the entries in the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge, undergoes a joint force test the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge, part of NASAs Centennial Challenges Program, at the Astronaut Hall of Fame near NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The nationwide competition focused on developing improved pressure suit gloves for astronauts to use while working in space. During the challenge, inventors tested the gloves to measure dexterity and strength during operation in a glove box which simulates the vacuum of space. Centennial Challenges is NASAs program of technology prizes for the citizen-inventor. The winning prize for the Glove Challenge is $250,000 provided by the Centennial Challenges Program.
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A plume of fire lights up the night during a test of the Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator at Stennis Space Center's E-1 Test Stand.
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Silicon Valley FIRST Regional Robotics competition Battle on! teams 1516 Grizzles, 1868 Space Cookies, 668 The Apes of Wrath
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At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, students monitor progress as their Swarmie robots as they search for "resources." The goal is for the robots to pick up cubes with AprilTags, which are similar to bar codes. The Swarmies then move the cubes to a white square in the center of the completion arena. The small, four-wheeled robots are designed to effectively and efficiently locate hidden resources while astronauts explore distant destinations such as the moon or Mars.
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2010 FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION - DAY 1
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Students from California Polytechnic Institute, or CalPoly, and Merritt Island High School in Florida perform integration tests on a pair of cubesats they will fly on a suborbital mission in the summer. A team from each school built a satellite and the two will work together inside a small rocket to measure vibration and other data during launch. NASA engineers, including Shaun Daly, in gray shirt, are acting as mentors for the project and some of the space agency's labs at Kennedy Space Center, including this one inside the Operations and Checkout Building, are being used by the teams.
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NASA Kennedy Space Center hosted a Community Leaders Update on Feb. 18, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Trent Smith, (insert title), left, talks to an attendee about the Veggie plant growth system that is currently in use on the International Space Station. Center Director Bob Cabana moderated a panel discussion featuring senior leaders from Exploration Ground Systems, Spaceport Integration and Services, Exploration Research and Technology Programs, Gateway Logistics Element, and Center Planning and Development. Attendees included community leaders, business executives, partners, educators and government leaders. After the presentation, guests had the opportunity to ask questions and visit displays from the programs and some of the commercial partners.
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HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM NORTH ALABAMA GATHER AT THE U.S. SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER'S DAVIDSON CENTER FOR THE "ROBOTS TO ROCKET CITY" EVENT SHOWCASING THEIR INDIVIDUAL ROBOTS PRIOR TO LATER COMPETITIONS.
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In the Swarmathon competition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, students were asked to develop computer code for the small robots, programming them to look for "resources" in the form of AprilTag cubes, similar to barcodes. Teams developed search algorithms for the Swarmies to operate autonomously, communicating and interacting as a collective swarm similar to ants foraging for food. In the spaceport's third annual Swarmathon, 23 teams represented 24 minority serving universities and community colleges were invited to develop software code to operate these innovative robots known as "Swarmies" to help find resources when astronauts explore distant locations, such as the Moon or Mars.
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Motherboard and fan of a high-performance PC, Internationale Computermesse CEBIT international computer fair, Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe
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Uzkar Ibrahim (right), director of business development - Department of Defense, Asylon, instructs Brig. Gen. Heather Reuter (left), how to control a DroneDog with a Microsoft XBox game controller during the 2022 Fed Supernova Conference Sept. 29 in Austin, Texas. Reuter and other key leaders attended this three-day conference to promote the 75th IC's vision, mission, and capabilities while developing partnerships with entrepreneurs, universities and other Department of Defense organizations. Sponsored by Capital Factory, Fed Supernova connects entrepreneurs, government and industry together to collaborate on a dual-use solutions that put commercial technology in the hands of the Department of Defense. Developed by Asylon and Boston Dynamics, the DroneDog security offers end-to-end quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicles security solutions. The hardware and software include live video monitoring, teleoperation, 20x optical zoom, infrared (thermal) vision for nighttime operations,
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JSC2011-E-028125 (23 March 2011) --- News media representatives and NASA personnel are pictured during an STS-135 media day event in the Avionics Systems Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
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Robert Bigelow gets demonstration of the Ames rover at the Ames Mars Yard. L-R Terrrence Fong, Robert Schingler (both of Ames) Robert Bigelow, Jay Ingham of NNT, Phil Hearlth, Ames, Gary Jones and ___, of NNT
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Engineers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center prep a remote-controlled aircraft for take-off. The aircraft is equipped with a unique set of sensors and software and was assembled by a team of engineers for a competition at the agency's Kennedy Space Center. Teams from Johnson Space Center and Marshall Space Flight Center joined the Kennedy team in competing in an unmanned aerial systems event to evaluate designs and work by engineers learning new specialties. The competition took place at the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy.
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Students from the University of Rochester prepare their robotic miner for its turn to dig in the mining arena during NASAs LUNABOTICS competition on May 23, 2022, at the Center for Space Education near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. More than 35 teams from around the U.S. have designed and built remote-controlled robots for the mining competition. Teams use their autonomous or remote-controlled robots to maneuver and dig in a supersized sandbox filled with rocks and simulated lunar soil, or regolith. The objective of the challenge is to see which teams robot can collect and deposit the most rocky regolith within a specified amount of time.
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Test of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) technical capability Level 2 (TCL2) at Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada. During the test, five drones simultaneously crossed paths, separated by altitude. Two drones flew beyond visual line-of-sight and three flew within line-of-sight of their operators.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Two young visitors get an up-close look at an engineering model of Robonaut 2, complete with a set of legs, during the Robot Rocket Rally. The three-day event at Florida's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is highlighted by exhibits, games and demonstrations of a variety of robots, with exhibitors ranging from school robotics clubs to veteran NASA scientists and engineers.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The tools that will be used to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on the STS-125 mission are displayed in the NASA News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Being held in the foreground is the grid cutter tool, which will enable removal of the Electromagnetic Interference Grid from the Advanced Camera for Surveys access cover. On space shuttle Atlantis STS-125 mission, Hubble will be serviced for the fifth and final time. The flight will include five spacewalks during which astronauts will refurbish and upgrade the telescope with these state-of-the-art science instruments. As a result, Hubble's capabilities will be expanded and its operational lifespan extended through at least 2014. The payload includes a Wide Field Camera 3, fine guidance sensor and the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph. Launch is scheduled for 2:01 p.m. EDT May 11.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Robert Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, discusses technological advances with teams of high school students taking part in the FIRST Robotics Competition's 2013 Orlando Regional in the University of Central Florida Arena. The student-built robots were required to throw discs into boxes or make climbs to score points.
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The unveiling of the B-2 Test Stand model for the SLS management team and employees in building 4220. Taking part was John Honeycutt and Julie Bassler.
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Swedish Delegation visited Goddard on May 3, 2017. Ben Reed gives overview of the Robotic Operations Center in Building 29 as part of the Center tour
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The Orion crew module flown on NASAs Pad Abort-1 (PA-1) flight test is shown on display at an event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 4, 2011 before moving into the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building. Part of Batch image transfer from Flickr.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Visitors to the Visitor Complex at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida get a look at the Orion crew exploration vehicle mockup, which is on display before heading offshore to be tested in open water. The spacecraft mock-up traveled from the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division in Bethesda, Md. The goal of the open water testing, dubbed the Post-landing Orion Recovery Test, or PORT, is to determine what kind of motion astronauts can expect after landing, as well as outside conditions for recovery teams. Part of the Constellation Program, Orion is targeted to begin carrying humans to the International Space Station in 2015 and to the moon by 2020.
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Flight Test in the Roverscape (N-269) at NASA's Ames Research Center, the project team tests the DJI Matrice 600 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) equipped with a radio tracking receiver to study the invasive asian carp in the Mississippi River.
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KIKK Festival NAMUR, BELGIUM - NOVEMBER 04 : For 10 years, the KIKK festival has been a real laboratory that has never stopped evolving and re-inventing itself. The KIKK Festival will offer from the 4th of November to the 7th, an immersion in the universe of digital and creative cultures. .on NOVEMBER 04, 2021 in Namur, Belgium, 4/11/2021 Namur Belgium PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxFRAxBEL Copyright: xBertxVanxDenxBrouckex
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Guam Lt. Gov. Josh Tenorio, second from right, test drives a robot designed by the Team Hafa Adai "Robokids" at the Guam National Guard's STARBASE facility on Fort Juan Muna, Sept. 23 as Maj. Gen. (GU) Esther Aguigui, left, and Command Sgt. Maj. Celso Leonen look on. "There's a whole lot of technology going on in Guam right now, with more opportunities on the horizon," said Tenorio. "You are among the first who will benefit from these opportunities, so congratulations to the team." The Robokids will represent Guam at the First Global Challenge in Switzerland next month, where they will compete on the world stage in robotics design and engineering.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a working model of the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, Robonaut 2, is available for media to check out before space shuttle Discovery's final flight on the STS-133 mission. Discovery and its six-member STS-133 crew will deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2 to the International Space Station.
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University of Waterloo (Canada) Robotics Team members test their robot on the practice field one day prior to the NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge, Friday, June 15, 2012 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. Teams will compete for a $1.5 million NASA prize to build an autonomous robot that can identify, collect and return samples. NASA needs autonomous robotic capability for future planetary exploration.
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COLUMBIA, Md. - AvengerCon VII, hosted every fall by Maryland Innovation and Security Institute to benefit the hackers of the U.S. Cyber Command community and the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber), has returned for a hybrid in-person and virtual event on November 30th and December 1st.The RF Village was just one of many opportunities for Avengercon VII attendees. There were several infosec challenges in the villages as well.
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Lt. Gen. Shaun Q. Morris, center, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, meets with Linda Haines, Program Executive Office Digitals Force Protection Division chief, at the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, Mass., Jan 23. Haines briefed Morris on how her team is partnering with the university on testing efforts.
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LAO - VIENTIANE LA COMPROMISEMême si elle se rapproche du million dhabitants, Vientiane a encore les allures dune bourgade à côte des mégapoles des pays voisins telles que Bangkok ou Ho-Chi-Minh Ville. Cela nempêche pas la capitale laotienne de rêver du même destin. La culture ancestrale du Laos, étroitement liée au culte bouddhique, se veut sans vains désirs ni ambitions démesurées. Aujourdhui, la rupture est totale et Vientiane en est lillustration. La croissance exponentielle du pays est principalement due aux investissements étrangers, avec en première ligne la Chine, qui viennent puiser dans les nombreuses ressources naturelles du pays, notamment dans les secteurs miniers, forestiers et hydroélectriques.Ainsi, avec la mondialisation qui entraine luniformisation des modes de vie et ces nouvelles richesses qui sont créées, les habitants de la capitale aspirent à un nouveau destin. Tours de verre, centre commerciaux, parcs dattraction, restaurants et cafés branchés commenc
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Leandro James of Systems Hardware Engineering carries a small test rocket to the launch stand. The activity was part of Rocket University with the goal to test its systems and to verify that it performed as designed. As part of Rocket University, the engineers are given an opportunity to work a fast-track project to develop skills in developing spacecraft systems of the future. As NASA plans for future spaceflight programs to low-Earth orbit and beyond, teams of engineers at Kennedy are gaining experience in designing and flying launch vehicle systems on a small scale. Four teams of five to eight members from Kennedy are designing rockets complete with avionics and recovery systems. Launch operations require coordination with federal agencies, just as they would with rockets launched in support of a NASA mission.
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During the final round of the Swarmathon competition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Students from Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, watch their robots as they look for cubes identified by their AprilTags, similar to a barcodes. The Swarmies were programed to deliver the cubes to a "home" square in the middle of a competition arena. SIPI captured first place in the competition winning a $5,000 cash prize.
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Stuart Wagner, U.S. Air Force chief digital transformation officer, meets with participants of the BRAVO Hackathon July 19, 2022, at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla. Wagner helped plan the event, which featured engineers, scientists and coders from the military, academia, and industry.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Many of the 41 teams competing in the 2004 Florida Regional FIRST competition at the University of Central Florida are seen here preparing their robots for a match. KSC sponsored the Pink” team of Cocoa Beach and Rockledge High School students. Among observers at the annual event were Center Director Jim Kennedy and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who spoke at the event luncheon. FIRST is a nonprofit organization, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, that sponsors the event pitting gladiator robots against each other in an athletic-style competition. The FIRST robotics competition is designed to provide students with a hands-on, inside look at engineering and other professional careers, pairing high school students with engineer mentors and corporations.
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The Virtual Reality demonstration from the 17th Training Support Squadron Instructional Technology Unit is displayed at the Technical Training 101 Tech Expo at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, March 30, 2023. TT 101 was held at Keesler to educate Second Air Force wing leaders about technical training innovations happening across the Numbered Air Force.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASAs Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln prepare their custom robot for NASAs Fourth Annual Robotic Mining Competition, held May 20-24. The mining competition is coordinated by Kennedy Space Centers Education Office for the agencys Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Undergraduate and graduate students from 50 universities and colleges in the U.S. and around the world use their remote-controlled robots to maneuver and dig in a supersized sandbox filled with a crushed material called regolith that has characteristics similar to asteroids, moons of Mars and Mars itself.
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Female programmer controlling an AR Drone toy drone using Google glasses at a Nodecopter in Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) held at New York University, New York City, New York State, USA
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A team of competitors readies its robotic vehicle taking part in the racing portion of NASA's Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Although much of the competition was based on a vehicle's ability to dig soil, the festivities also included head-to-head runs for the robotic craft.
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In the Swarmathon competition at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, students were asked to develop computer code for the small robots, programming them to look for "resources" in the form of cubes with AprilTags, similar to barcodes. Teams developed search algorithms for the Swarmies to operate autonomously, communicating and interacting as a collective swarm similar to ants foraging for food.
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Young boy using virtual reality goggles, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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2010 FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION - DAY 1
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The "pencil sharpener" tool designed to trim the hand-sprayed foam repairs on the STS-117 external tank is on display for the media at the NASA News Center. This portable tool was designed in just 10 days specifically for this task by Lockheed Martin engineer Glenn Lapeyronnie at the Michoud external tank manufacturing facility in New Orleans. The pencil sharpener tool fits over the external tank nose cone spike at the top of the tank and extends down to where the hand-sprayed foam was used to repair the hail-damaged areas. The hail damage was incurred Feb. 28 while Space Shuttle Atlantis was on the launch pad for a March 15 launch. The shuttle returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building so that repairs could be made. Mission STS-117 is scheduled to launch at 7:38 p.m. EDT on June 8.