NYU Robotic
Design Team

We design, build, and compete lunar mining robots.

Meet the team NASA Lunabotics · NYU Tandon
Luna testing on the sand at Coney Island
Luna, Coney Island · Spring 2026

An ambitious robot.
A hands-on education.

We’re a team of NYU undergraduates working across mechanical, electrical, and software engineering to take a lunar mining robot from an idea to the competition floor.

At NASA’s annual Lunabotics competition, that means digging, hauling, and depositing simulated lunar regolith. Along the way, we advance autonomous excavation research and share robotics with communities across New York City.

CAD rendering of the assembled Luna rover, showing its wheels, digging ladder, collection bin, and electronics

Meet Luna.

Luna is our 2026 lunar mining robot, designed and built by students at NYU.

Watch Luna in action
RDT students gathered beside Luna on the Coney Island boardwalk

The people behind Luna, from the NYU workshop to the sand at Coney Island · Spring 2026

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Previous years

LUNA

Season
2025 — 2026
Competition
NASA Lunabotics 2026
Disciplines
Mechanical · Electrical · Software
Record
Proof of life (video)
The 2025–26 team on the Wunsch Hall steps
The LUNA season team  ·  Fall 2025

TALOS

Season
2024 — 2025
Competition
NASA Lunabotics 2025
Disciplines
Mechanical · Electrical · Software
Record
Proof of life (video)
The 2024–25 team on the Wunsch Hall steps
The TALOS season team  ·  Fall 2024

TITAN

Season
2023 — 2024
Competition
NASA Lunabotics 2024
Disciplines
Mechanical · Electrical · Software
Record
Proof of life (video)
The 2023–24 team
The TITAN season team

A.M.I.G.O.

Season
2022 — 2023
Competition
NASA Lunabotics 2023
Disciplines
Mechanical · Electrical · Software
Record
Proof of life (video)
Acronym
Autonomous Machine In Galactic Operations
A.M.I.G.O. robot
A.M.I.G.O. robot

A.S.T.R.O.

Season
2021 — 2022
Competition
NASA Lunabotics 2022
Disciplines
Mechanical · Electrical · Software
Record
Proof of life (video)
Acronym
The 2021–22 team on the Wunsch Hall steps
The ASTRO season team  ·  Spring 2022

P.I.P.E.R.

Season
2020 — 2021
Competition
NASA Lunabotics 2021
Disciplines
Mechanical · Electrical · Software
Acronym
Project: Inter Planetary Excavating Rover
P.I.P.E.R. robot
P.I.P.E.R. robot

Earlier seasons

Team record
  • The 2017–18 team

    Spring 2018

  • The 2019 team

    Fall 2019

  • The team outside 5 MetroTech Center

    Spring 2021

Earlier machines (ORBIT, ATLAS) live on the team's channel.

Let’s build
something together.

Interested in joining, supporting a season, or connecting with the team? We’d like to hear from you.

eng-rdt@nyu.edu

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
325 Gold St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Support the next build.

To discuss sponsorship, equipment, or other ways to support the team, send us a message. Thank you to the organizations backing our work.

  • CMT Hogan
  • NYU VIP Department
  • NYU MAE Department
  • NYU ECE Department