On April 16 2025, the Lunar Lab hosted a lab tour for the local Young Men’s Group. The outreach event was a great success — both youth and adults were fully engaged through interactive robot demonstrations and lively Q&A sessions with our lab members throughout the visit.
We conducted an engaging and educational live flight demonstration for the group, showcasing the sensing capabilities of our drone platform in real time. The demo gave the audience a tangible understanding of core technologies such as visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and multi-robot coordination, inspiring them to envision the transformative potential of these innovations in advancing environmental monitoring, disaster response, and logistics automation.
Our collaborator and special guest, Tomohiro Sasaki, delivered an engaging demonstration of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) using our Jackal robot, showcasing its capabilities in autonomous navigation and vision-based control. He also shared his forward-looking vision for the development and deployment of autonomous rovers in future space exploration missions to the group, highlighting the potential of ground-based robotic systems in supporting extraterrestrial operations.
Special thanks to Daniel for organizing this amazing event, and to Sandilya and Tomohiro for delivering engaging presentations and robot demonstrations!