NASA RMC 2018 Competition Results

• 2018 National Champions
• Overall ​Joe Kosmo Award Winners
• 1st in Caterpillar Award for Full Autonomy 
• Efficient Use of Communications Power Award
• 1st in On-Site Mining Award
• 1st in Outreach Project Report
• 1st in Systems Engineering Paper
• 3rd in Slide Presentation and Demonstration

NASA RMC 2018 Competition Photos

Status Update:

  This year, NASA decided to throw us a curve ball. Fluffy regolith is now worth 0 points per kg. Icy regolith is the only way to score digging points at NASA RMC 2018. We are currently in design phase of this years robot, and have already had a systems design review. We  are completing a critical design review on November 2nd for our base. A digger test stand has been created to explore different digging systems in our own simulated regolith.

2018 Base Demo in the pit!

We survived our first PDR/CDR! 

New recruits working on a digger test stand 

Freshman member Kelvin is hard at work modifying the sifter that we will use to sift gravel out of the crushed limestone in the UA1 room! 

MARTE is enjoying his retirement, but you can still see him around the Tuscaloosa community showing off his digging
​ skills from time to time

2018 Sponsors