NASA reveals the theme of exploration for the first robotics 2025

What does the future of spatial exploration look like? During the first world robotics championship in 2025 in Houston, NASA gave teams of student robotics and industry leaders a complete look with lunar rovers, robotic weapons and real conversations on the formation of the next discovery era.

NASA has engaged directly with the Artemis generation, connecting with more than 55,000 students and 75,000 parents and mentors. Thanks to interactive exhibitions and discussions, students explored the agency’s robotic technologies, learned STEM routes and internships and had an overview of the daring vision of NASA for the future. Many have expressed their interest in internships and dreams of a day contributing to the NASA missions to explore the unknown in favor of all humanity.

Several NASA centers participated in the event, including the Johnson Space Center in Houston; Jet propulsion laboratory in southern California; Kennedy Space Center in Florida; Langley Research Center in Virginia; AMS Research Center in California; Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans; Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland; Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; and the installation of independent verification and validation of Katherine Johnson in Virginia-Western. Everyone has brought unique technologies and expertise on the floor of the exhibition.

Displays key innovations highlighted such as:

• Spatial exploration vehicle: A prototype of pressure rover built for human exploration of planetary surfaces, offering participants an overview of how future astronauts could one day move through the moon or Mars.

• March perseverance rover: An exhibition detailing the Rover mission to seek an ancient microbial life and to collect samples for a future return to earth.

“These demonstrations help students to see themselves in the mission of NASA and the next border of lunar exploration,” said public affairs specialist Johnson, Andrew Knotts. “They can imagine their future as part of the team that shapes how we live and work in space.”

Since the first championship moved to Houston in 2017, NASA has supervised more than 250 robotics teams per year, supporting primary for high school students. The agency continued this tradition for this year’s event and celebrated the merger of science, engineering and creativity that defines both robotics and space exploration.

Local students also had the chance to discover the Texas High School aerospace researcherswhich offers a practical experience of Texas High School Juniors to design space missions and to resolve engineering challenges – a first gateway in the world of exploration of NASA.

While the competition was coming to an end, students and mentors were already heading for the next season, new ideas, reinforced friendships and dreams of future missions.

“It was a real privilege of representing NASA to so many students, educators and inspiring mentors,” said Jeanette Snyder, engineer of aerospace systems for Gateway. “Not so long ago, I myself was a robotics student, and I always use skills that I have developed thanks to the first robotics in my work as a nasa engineer. See so much excitement around engineering and technology makes me optimistic for the future of space exploration. I can’t wait to see these students become the next generation of NASA engineers and global changers.”

With the enthusiastic support of volunteers, mentors, sponsors and leaders of industry, and the continuous commitment of NASA to raise awareness of STEMs, the future of exploration is in daring and capable hands.

See the full event come to life in the panorama videos below.