“The goal is to find resources on the moon, dig them up and bring them to a processing plant where they can be turned into useful stuff like oxygen, iron, steel, and so on, Gennert said.
Team Capricorn is continuing to design algorithms that could be used on NASA robots which could go to the moon or even Mars some day.
“It’s really exciting to face multiple, difficult problems that people actually see out there and might not have been solved,” said Ashay Aswale, a PhD student in robotics engineering who is serving as the project manager for Team Capricorn.