{"id":181945,"date":"2013-02-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"91c86d148070cd19dc3ec8cdf6632b0a"},"modified":"2013-02-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T23:00:00","slug":"volare-robotics-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=181945","title":{"rendered":"Volare robotics challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/02\/volare_robotics_challenge\/12535219-2-eng-GB\/Volare_robotics_challenge_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is the ambassador for the Volare robotics challenge, ESA\u2019s first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station. In this video Luca explains robotics operations in space.<br \/>\nThe competition combines do-it-yourself and gaming skills in a robotic race to unload, carry and store cargo.<br \/>Youngsters &nbsp;from &nbsp;ESA Member States, competing in three age groups between 11 and &nbsp;19 &nbsp;years &nbsp;old, &nbsp;have a wide degree of freedom when making their robots. There are no restrictions and no recommendations \u2013 teams can build them from kits available in shops or recycle old parts to make better models, as long as they adhere to safety requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/02\/volare_robotics_challenge\/12535219-2-eng-GB\/Volare_robotics_challenge_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is the ambassador for the Volare robotics challenge, ESA\u2019s first robotic competition on a mock-up of the International Space Station. In this video Luca explains robotics operations in space.<br \/>\nThe competition combines do-it-yourself and gaming skills in a robotic race to unload, carry and store cargo.<br \/>Youngsters &nbsp;from &nbsp;ESA Member States, competing in three age groups between 11 and &nbsp;19 &nbsp;years &nbsp;old, &nbsp;have a wide degree of freedom when making their robots. There are no restrictions and no recommendations \u2013 teams can build them from kits available in shops or recycle old parts to make better models, as long as they adhere to safety requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}