

William "Red" Whittaker, Fredkin Professor and Director of Field Robotics Center, of The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, stands with "Red Rover II". The robot is the latest prototype of Red's CMU entry for The Google Lunar X PRIZE. A $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth.