Image Credit: Microsoft Imagine Cup PISCES Robotic Tech Casey Pearring and a fellow team of University of Hawaii at Hilo (UHH) computer science students claimed victory in the 2015 Pitch Video Challenge in the Microsoft Imagine Cup – a global student technology...
Sophie Milam shown on the Slopes of Mauna Loa volcano near the Hi-SEAS Habitat. Credit: Forbes Former PISCES worker Sophie Milam made the 2015 Forbes “30 Under 30” in the science category for her cutting edge research in robotics and role in the Mars simulation...
Image Credit: NASA NASA is preparing its next Mars mission for launch in 2020 with a new rover designed to seek out the existence of life on the Red Planet. The yet-to-be named rover, currently dubbed ‘Mars 2020’, will carry a payload of seven state-of-the-art...
Above: GLXP Team Astrobotic’s lunar rover dubbed “Andy” shown in a mock lunar landscape. Credit: Astrobotic. Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) – the $30 million international competition challenging private space teams to launch, fly, and land a...
China’s Chang’e-3 continues to carry on in the harsh environment of the Moon, now having endured one year on the surface as of last weekend. The first-ever lunar lander for China has been in an out of hibernation 13 times to endure the harsh lunar nights. One...
Above: PISCES Planetary Rover on the ‘extraterrestrial’ set of Hawaii Five-O! Lights, Camera, Traction!! All eyes were on the PISCES Planetary Rover last September during an exciting, action-packed shoot of the Hawaii Five-O TV show on Hawaii Island. The...