Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge ! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 states. Teams will now move on to a Qualifying Round where they will virtually explore and map the lunar surface using a digital twin of NASA’s lunar mobility robot, the ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) . Teams will develop software that can perform set actions without human intervention, navigating the digital IPEx in the harsh, low-light conditions of the Moon. The Qualifying Round will extend to February 28, when the top-scoring teams will proceed to the Final Round, with the winners announced in May 2025.
The Lunar Autonomy Challenge is a collaboration between NASA, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Caterpillar Inc., and Embodied AI.
Learn more: https://lunar-autonomy-challenge.jhuapl.edu/
| School | City | State |
| American Public University System | Charles Town | West Virginia |
| Arizona State University | Tempe | Arizona |
| California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona (1) | Pomona | California |
| California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona (2) | Pomona | California |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania |
| Embry Riddle Aeronautical University | Daytona Beach | Florida |
| Essex County College | Newark | New Jersey |
| Georgia Institute of Technology & Arizona State University | Atlanta & Tempe | Georgia & Arizona |
| Harvard University | Allston | Massachusetts |
| Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering | Baltimore | Maryland |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
| New York University Tandon School of Engineering | Brooklyn | New York |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh | North Carolina |
| Penn State (1) | University Park | Pennsylvania |
| Penn State (2) | University Park | Pennsylvania |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette | Indiana |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester | New York |
| Rose Hulman Institue of Technology | Terre Haute | Indiana |
| Stanford University | Stanford | California |
| Texas A&M University | College Station | Texas |
| University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa | Alabama |
| University of Buffalo, State University of New York | Buffalo | New York |
| University of California, Stanislaus | Turlock | California |
| University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (1) | Urbana | Illinois |
| University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2) | Urbana | Illinois |
| University of Maryland | College Park | Maryland |
| University of Pennsylvania (1) | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| University of Pennsylvania (2) | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania |
| University of Southern California & Stanford University | Los Angeles & Stanford | California |
| West Virginia University | Morgantown | West Virginia |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester | Massachusetts |
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