Three Moon-bot teams won $750,000 in NASA prizes the past Sunday in the 2009 Regolith Excavation Challenge, designed to foster innovation in the development of robots capable of digging up lunar soil at some point in the near-term future.The California Space Authority-sponsored event held at NASA Ames gave the first-place prize of $500,000 to Paul's Robotics of Worcester, Mass;. Terra Engineering of Gardena, Calif., second-place prize of $150,000; and Team Braundo of Rancho Palos Verde, Calif., won $100,000 for its third-place showing. MORE from MSNBC and NASA Watch.
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