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Students from the thirteen shortlisted teams attending a lecture in the ESTEC High Bay during the Experiments Selection Workshop

New student teams for ESA Academy Experiments Programme

08/04/2026 1001 views 16 likes

Team GRASP integrating their gecko-inspired gripper on the air-bearing platform on the right, with the platform carrying the target object on the left.

Gripping the Future: Students Test Gecko-Inspired Robotic A…

22/12/2025 830 views 14 likes

Group photo from the V-STARS test campaign, with the floating platform used by participants during the experiment shown on the left

V-STARS pioneers neuroscience at ESA’s Orbital Robotics Lab

11/12/2025 847 views 8 likes

The SKYWALKER team's robotic arm, mounted on the MANTIS platform, autonomously inserts itself into the anchor point

SKYWALKER tests robotic crawling at ESTEC

20/10/2025 720 views 5 likes

Group picture during the 87th ESA parabolic flight campaign as part of the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, in front of Novespace's AirZeroG aircraft

A sensational Zero-G campaign for teams CAVE 0g and MVIPER

30/09/2025 1027 views 9 likes

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Large Diameter Centrifuge Drop Towers Parabolic flights International Space Station Space Rider Orbital Robotics Laboratory

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