Audi’s Developing a Moon Rover For Google’s Lunar Xprize

Audi is no stranger tobranching out from cars , but its most recent project is perhaps more ambitious than usual : with a team of German scientist and engineers , it ’s helping build a rover that could one day make it to the moonshine .

run with a squad bonk asPart - Time Scientists , the car manufacturing business is developing the rover as part of the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenger . It claim to be “ bear out the [ task ] with … know - how in several fields of technology – from quattro all - bicycle drive and lightweight mental synthesis to electric mobility and piloted drive . ”

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Google’sLunar XPRIZEwill give the first team that gets a rover to the moon and 500 meters across its surface to beam HD video back to Earth a $ 30 million booty . The theme is to drive engineers to create robust , low-priced direction to explore the reaches of space .

Audi and Part - Time Scientists be after to land their new scouter on the same website where Apollo 17 complete the last manned mission to the moon . The plan to launch it some time in 2017 . Let ’s wait and see if they ’re successful . [ AudiviaCNETviaEngadget ]

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