Lunar Underactuated Arm (LUnA)

LUnA is an underactuated robotic arm for lunar exploration developed by Maxar Space Robotics under the NASA Tipping Point program. It was successfully tested in a lunar simulant environment in 2024. The LUnA arm has 3 degrees of freedom driven by a single actuator at the base, with an internal cable transmission and selectable joint to move. Only a single joint is moved at any given time.

I led the development of the robotic arm from initial architecture to PDR.