Lunabotics

NASA Competition Team designing autonomous lunar excavation robots for future space missions.

Technical Specs Resources

Mission to the Moon

Autonomous Operation

Vision & AI navigation

Excavation Systems

Efficient regolith handling

NASA Challenge

Annual competition

Autonomous Navigation

ROS, SLAM

CANbus

CANbus Systems

Computer Vision

OpenCV, TensorFlow

Motor Controllers

SparkMax Moter Controllers

1st Place Robotic Construction

May 2025

Innovation Award

May 2024 / May 2025

5th Place Autonomy Award

May 2024 / May 2025

Fernanda Palomar

Captain — Senior

Aakash Bajaj

Control Systems Lead — Junior

George Ciuca

Mechanical Lead — Senior

Nathan Morabito

Electrical Lead — Junior

Catherine Schuch

Systems Engineering Lead — Junior

2025 Systems Paper

2025 Competition

UIC Engieering report 2025