Audi has enlisted a team of German scientists and engineers in order to help the car company build a moon rover for the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition.
The team, called Part-Time Scientists, is backed by Audi which claims to be “supporting the [project] with… know-how in several fields of technology – from Quattro all-wheel drive and lightweight construction to electric mobility and piloted driving.”
The first team to successfully get a rover to the moon, trek 500 meters across its surface, and beam HD video back to Earth will receive a $30 million prize as part of Google’s Lunar XPRIZE.
Part-Time Scientists are aiming for their first launch in 2017 when the rover will attempt to land in the same area Apollo 17 touched down.
