© 2020 EPFL/GrowBotHub - Using robotics to grow and harvest plants without human intervention? That's the aim of GrowBotHub, an EPFL project under the auspices of the IGLUNA 2020 initiative, in which teams of students work together on technologies that can be used to design a space habitat. Final projects will be presented online in July. There are many ways to express improbability, such as "when pigs fly" or "when hell freezes over." How about "when vegetables grow on the Moon"- Actually, that might just happen, if the GrowBotHub team has its way. This interdisciplinary student project is part of the IGLUNA 2020 initiative, launched by EPFL's Swiss Space Center on the initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA). The goal of IGLUNA is to determine what technologies astronauts need to survive on a mission to the Moon (or to other planets). This is the second year of the IGLUNA campaign, and the project presentations - originally slated to take place in Lucerne on 10-19 July - will instead be held online. This year's theme is remote control.
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