Students in Focus: How to control lunar robots from space

From CU Boulder Today: Humans have already been to the moon—and will likely return—but engineering undergraduates Benjamin Mellinkoff and Matthew Spydell have their eyes set on an even bigger challenge: helping humans explore the entire solar system with the aid of robotic partners. Mellinkoff and Spydell work in a NASA-funded telerobotics lab at CU Boulder with a focus on using telerobotics to someday explore the solar system. Since humans are going back to the moon, researchers are transitioning into an era of space exploration that features a human-robotic partnership. Read more...