Hosted by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation in partnership with NASA and Caterpillar Inc. 

Lunabotics is where mission-minded students build the technologies that will help enable a sustained human presence on the Moon. With support from NASA-inspired partners and industry collaborators, the competition turns real-world lunar surface challenges into practical learning autonomous systems, excavation, mobility, robotics, and resource utilization. 

For sponsors, Lunabotics delivers more than logo placement. It provides a direct connection to the future engineering workforce, executive-level thought leadership opportunities, and broadcast visibility to a national audience—while your brand is associated with the mission of building the next generation of lunar infrastructure. 

Event Sponsorship at-a-glance

• A concentrated student engineering pipeline (30–50 teams in prelims; top 10 teams in finals) 

• Team composition: 15–20 student participants per team plus sponsors and partners

• Total broadcast schedule: 8 competition days (5 prelims + 3 finals)

• Broadcast reach (estimated 3,000–7,000 views per day) across 8 broadcast competition days

• Estimated total broadcast exposure range: 24,000–56,000 views across the competition (based on daily estimates) 

• Recruiting + workforce engagement activations designed to create real conversations 

• Long-term content value: broadcast footage continues to be used by participating teams and students throughout the year for research, design review, and planning future competition iterations 

• 2027 milestone: 2027 will be the 17th year of the Lunabotics Challenge 

Why Sponsor Lunabotics? 

The future of lunar exploration will not be built by rockets alone. 

It will be built by the engineers, technicians, roboticists, coders, fabricators, project managers, and innovators who develop the systems needed to establish a sustained human presence on the Moon. 

When your organization sponsors Lunabotics, you become part of a national effort to develop the workforce and technologies that will support Artemis missions and the next era of lunar infrastructure. 

Your organization helps transform students from learners into future builders. 

Lunabotics gives students the opportunity to solve real-world lunar surface challenges involving autonomous systems, excavation, mobility, resource utilization, and robotics. Sponsors help ensure students have access to mentoring, real-world context, and a platform that turns learning into engineering confidence. 

Viewing Audience

• University and college engineering teams (mechanical, aerospace, robotics, computer science)  

• High school STEM programs and educators  

• NASA engineers and subject-matter experts  

• Industry professionals from aerospace, defense, robotics, AI, and advanced manufacturing  

• National and international audience via event broadcast and social media