Hi fans of robot videos. In these vids you can see some robots and some hardware from teams enrolled in Google X PRIZE. If you don't know yet what Google X Prize is, then you should know that it is something just amazing. The rules are quite simple, but the target is something very difficult. Google X Prize is a 30 million dollars competition to land a robot on the Moon, then travel 500 meters over the surface of the Moon and send some images and data back to planet Earth. Teams must be privately funded (at least 90% privately) and they must be registered by December 31, 2010. The first team to complete these difficult mission objectives will be awarded $20 million. The full first prize is available until December 31, 2012. Then, the first prize will be $15 million. The second team will get $5 million. Another 5 million dollars will be awarded in some bonus prizes. The final deadline for winning the prize is December 31, 2014. I just love space expolration and this looks like something really great. In next 10 years, it looks like the moon will be really crowded place, with NASA, China, Russians and even private companies there and that is something really great. Take a peek on these vids where you can see where the teams are now, some of the stuff looks really good, but there is really long journey in front of them.
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