Article Images Lunar Robotics Challenge: A successful cooperation within ESA   Erasmus Recording Binocular (ERB) in use during the Lunar Robotic Challenge. ERB, which is being developed by the Erasmus Centre within ESA's Directorate of Human Spaceflight, is an innovative high-resolution stereo-video recorder which one day may become part of the standard toolset of astronauts when surveying remote areas. ERB is scheduled to launch to the ISS in 2009. Field experience in human-robot interaction     The location for ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge – a competition for student groups remotely driving their rovers – was chosen in 2008 for its crater-like depressions covered with an unusual soil. The pumice pebbles and dust maderover locomotion as difficult as it is expected to be in a real lunar crater. The location's resemblance to a lunar landscape was also a driving factor in its selection. Capturing the lunar look     Team from the Univeristy of Oulu in Finland brought in a tank-like rover to compete in the final of ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge in Tenerife.   Walking robot from the Santa Anna School of Advanced Studies was one of the most advanced - and also fragile - robot in the final of ESA's Lunar Robotics Challenge. Release date: 31 October 2008