This little guy is going to the moon

Led by Dr Ir Chris Verhoeven and operations manager Maneesh Kumar Verma, TU students developed a robot that travels to the moon in 2022. The robot, named Lunar Zebro, is physically independent thanks to its c-shaped legs and operates in swarms to perform complex tasks. One of those tasks is gathering information on the moon, but the Zebro is also suitable for an expedition to Mars and can assist with rescue operations in difficult areas, such as caves.

Photo: Sam Rentmeester

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By Marjolein van der Veldt.
July 2019

Theme to the moon

On July 21 it will be fifty years ago that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. Following the good example of the InSight Marslander 88 teams of first-year mechanical engineering students built their own ‘Marktlander’: a Marslander that can take a beating. The assignment was to build an autonomous moving mechanism that can continue moving after a fall from table height, and then deliver a block of ‘gold’ three meters away. The winning Marktlander placed the block just 5.8 millimeters from the three-meter line.