AMES, Iowa – The student-engineers of the Cardinal Space Mining Club kept finding ways to adapt their robot and their strategies to move up the leaderboard. Dust is flying from the mini mining robot?

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5-23-16 update: Cyclone Space Mining was so close to big mining runs at NASA’s annual robotics competition. But, a broken frame disabled one of the team’s two robots during the team’s first run. Then, ...