Undergraduate Research - Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz/ UC Santa Cruz engineering students win national robotics competition
A team of four students from the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz won the first-place trophy in a national student robotics competition for their design of a solar-powered robot that can climb up a vertical ribbon while carrying a payload. Such a robotic climber would be an essential component of a "space elevator," a concept for transporting material into space via a cable or tether extending from the surface of the Earth into space.