NASA offers prizes for robots and astro-drones - Space.com - MSNBC.com: "NASA announced two new cash prizes Friday, each with a weighty $250,000 purse, in a pair of contests aimed at developing robotic systems for space exploration.
The space agency is challenging innovators to build an autonomous aerial vehicle to navigate a tricky flight path or robots capable of building complex structures with only limited guidance from their human handlers, NASA officials said.
The contests � dubbed the Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Telerobotic Construction challenges, respectively � are part of the agency�s Centennial Challenges program to spur interest in commercializing space technologies. Both challenges will make their competitive debut in 2007, NASA officials said. "
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