May 13 2009
Italy Aims to Send Spider-Bot Swarm to Moon
Team Italia hopes to win the Lunar X Prize with a swarm of spider-bots.
“Team Italia has evolved,” said Piero Messina, president of the Naples-based International Association for the Aerospace Culture (AICA) that is coordinating Team Italia.
“What we are trying to leverage is that most of aerospace community in Italy is behind this project,” Messina said. “We really want to give an Italian flavor to the undertaking.”
Source: Space.com - click here for Spider-Bot Swarm article
