- an IEEE prize-winning contribution to Japan's free-flying space robot project ETS-VII (similar to the Orbital Express mission of the USA)
- contributions to design of the sample acquisition mechanism and touch-and-go sampling sequence of the Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission
- 1st and 2nd prizes at the 2006 ARLISS comeback competition
- development of the 50kg SPRITE-SAT, will be launched on JAXA's H-IIA rocket in early 2009
Aug 11, 2008
Tohoku University Space Robotics Lab to Develop GLXP Rover
In our newest partnership, the Space Robotics Lab at Tohoku Univeristy Aerospace Engineering Department will work with us to design a rover for our Google Lunar X PRIZE mission. The Space Robotics lab is led by Professor Kazuya Yoshida and is one of the top robotics labs in Japan.
Its recent achievements include:
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glxp,
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