We need your team to create a "walking" robot to traverse a series of elevation changes involving stairs and ladders to carry a "heavy" payload down range.  Along with competing against other robots built by fellow robotics workshop teams, your robot will also go against some of the best tracked robots on the market such as the MTGR (http://www.robo-team.com/products/mtgr/) and the VANTAGE 

(https://transcendtactical.com/). 

We know you will have ideas before you arrive and to help your ideas come to life, we would like to offer to buy items that will be at NASA awaiting your arrival for your team’s prototyping efforts. For example, maybe you know the perfect actuator for “walking”. To “order your parts”, simply send Candace ([email protected]) and Lucien 

([email protected]) an email to let us know what you’d like us to buy and from where to buy it. Since our budget is limited and we are building inexpensive robots, please keep your purchases to a reasonable amount… a few hundred dollars seems reasonable. We will get into the details of the challenge as a group on Monday morning of the workshop. There will be lots of “Can we do …” & “What will …” questions answered.