Utah Student Robotics Team Wins Grand Prize at the 2025 NASA Lunabotics Competition
And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
“Win was our motto for the whole year,” said Brycen Chaney, University of Utah, president of student robotics. “We had a mission objective to take our team and competition a step further, but win was right up front of our minds.”
Lunabotics is an annual challenge where students design and build an autonomous and remote-controlled robot to navigate the lunar surface in support of the Artemis campaign. The students from the University of Utah used their robot to excavate simulated regolith, the loose, fragmented material on the Moon’s surface, as well as built a berm. The students, who competed against 37 other teams, won grand prize for the first time during the Lunabotics Challenge.
Read more here: https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/utah-student-robotics-win-nasas-aretemis-grand-prize/
NASA press release: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/future-engineers-shine-at-nasas-2025-lunabotics-robotics-competition/
Utah Student Robotics wins NASA’s Artemis Grand Prize at the 2025 NASA Lunabotics Competition at Kennedy Space Center.
The team’s newly constructed test bed outside of the Merrill Engineering Building on the University of Utah campus was a boon in improving their robot’s performance.
