http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/tags/basketball/ Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:09:26 -0700 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:09:26 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2852/buddyicons/35067687@N04.jpg?1369154786#35067687@N04 http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/tags/basketball/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/7383664736/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/nasahqphoto/">NASA HQ PHOTO</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/7383664736/" title="Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (201206160020HQ)"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5464/7383664736_5efa57711b_m.jpg" width="240" height="226" alt="Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (201206160020HQ)" /></a></p> <p>Children visiting the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) &quot;TouchTomorrow&quot; education and outreach event try to catch basketballs being thrown by a robot from FIRST Robotics at Burncoat High School (Mass.) on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at WPI in Worcester, Mass. The TouchTomorrow event was held in tandem with the NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge. The NASA-WPI challenge tasked robotic teams to build autonomous robots that can identify, collect and return samples. NASA needs autonomous robotic capability for future planetary exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)</p> Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:09:26 -0700 2012-06-16T14:12:07-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (NASA HQ PHOTO) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/7383664736 42.273855 -71.809499 42.273855 -71.809499 2362287 Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge (201206160020HQ) <p>Children visiting the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) &quot;TouchTomorrow&quot; education and outreach event try to catch basketballs being thrown by a robot from FIRST Robotics at Burncoat High School (Mass.) on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at WPI in Worcester, Mass. The TouchTomorrow event was held in tandem with the NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Centennial Challenge. The NASA-WPI challenge tasked robotic teams to build autonomous robots that can identify, collect and return samples. NASA needs autonomous robotic capability for future planetary exploration. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)</p> NASA HQ PHOTO usa basketball robot massachusetts nasa mass worcester worcesterpolytechnicinstitute billingalls samplereturnrobotchallenge http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en