[NASA] Lunar Autonomy Challenge: Selected Teams

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Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the

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! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 states. Teams will now move on to a Qualifying Round where they will virtually explore and map the lunar surface using a digital twin of NASA’s lunar mobility robot, the

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. Teams will develop software that can perform set actions without human intervention, navigating the digital IPEx in the harsh, low-light conditions of the Moon. The Qualifying Round will extend to February 28, when the top-scoring teams will proceed to the Final Round, with the winners announced in May 2025.

The Lunar Autonomy Challenge is a collaboration between NASA, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Caterpillar Inc., and Embodied AI. ​

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School	City	State
American Public University System	Charles Town	West Virginia
Arizona State University	Tempe	Arizona
California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona (1)	Pomona	California
California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona (2)	Pomona	California
Carnegie Mellon University	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University	Daytona Beach	Florida
Essex County College	Newark	New Jersey
Georgia Institute of Technology & Arizona State University	Atlanta & Tempe	Georgia & Arizona
Harvard University	Allston	Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering	Baltimore	Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	Massachusetts
New York University Tandon School of Engineering	Brooklyn	New York
North Carolina State University	Raleigh	North Carolina
Penn State (1)	University Park	Pennsylvania
Penn State (2)	University Park	Pennsylvania
Purdue University	West Lafayette	Indiana
Rochester Institute of Technology	Rochester	New York
Rose Hulman Institue of Technology	Terre Haute	Indiana
Stanford University	Stanford	California
Texas A&M University	College Station	Texas
University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa	Alabama
University of Buffalo, State University of New York	Buffalo	New York
University of California, Stanislaus	Turlock	California
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (1)	Urbana	Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2)	Urbana	Illinois
University of Maryland	College Park	Maryland
University of Pennsylvania (1)	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania (2)	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
University of Southern California & Stanford University	Los Angeles & Stanford	California
West Virginia University	Morgantown	West Virginia
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Worcester	Massachusetts

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