Seniors Benjamin Mellinkoff, left, and Matthew Spydell are getting their robot arm to work in their lab at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥'s Boulder campus on Wednesday.

Next space pioneers - Lunar robots in the works by ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder undergrads

Jan. 31, 2018

From the Daily Camera: University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Professor Jack Burns leads a laboratory on campus that he describes as a mash-up between Silicon Valley and the space program with the help of two undergraduate students he deemed "the next space pioneers." Seniors Benjamin Mellinkoff and Matthew Spydell were hunkered down...

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Students work on telerobotics

Students in Focus: How to control lunar robots from space

Jan. 30, 2018

From ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Today: Humans have already been to the moon—and will likely return—but engineering undergraduates Benjamin Mellinkoff and Matthew Spydell have their eyes set on an even bigger challenge: helping humans explore the entire solar system with the aid of robotic partners. Mellinkoff and Spydell work in a NASA-funded...