Samuel Griffin and Jake Webster – UA Robotics Team/Engineering

  • June 2nd, 2017
 
The robot built by UA students for the NASA competition
Engineering graduate students Samuel Griffin and Jake Webster were part of The University of Alabama robotics team, known as Alabama Astrobotics, that won top prize at the NASA Robotic Mining Competition in May 2017. The event challenges student teams to build a robot capable of navigating and excavating simulated Martian soil. One day, the robotic technologies developed by students for this competition could be used in off-world resource-mining missions to sustain human outposts. During the competition’s seven-year history, a UA team has won four times – and for three consecutive years. This year’s UA team successfully competed against student teams from 45 other institutions for the win. Griffin is pursuing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering. Webster is a doctoral student in mechanical engineering. Read the full story.   
Alabama Astrobotics, a team of UA students, won top prize for the third straight year at a NASA competition.

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