A new robot called "Andy" is being developed to work with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset to record video on the moon.
The project, created by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, is one of 18 entries in Google's Lunar X-Prize, which is offering $30 million to whichever team can land their robot on the moon, move it for 500 miles and send video back to Earth, according to BBC News.
The team has already given possible investors, including Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, a look at what Andy could do.
Daniel Shafrir, lead researcher of the Carnegie Mellon team, said the goal of the project is to let people remote control the robot and have the same experience they would have if they were actually on the moon, Mirror.co.uk reported.
"Put the headset on and you look to your left, you see the vast expanse of the moon," he said. "You look right and you see home. You're looking to see what it's really like on the moon."
The team named their robot after Andrew Carnegie, the founder of their university, BBC News reported. They held a demonstration for the robot in early October after fixing previous issues, such as being unable to receive tow live streams at once.
Shafrir said the team hopes to put "hundreds of robots on the Moon" to give more people a chance to feel what it's like to be an astronaut.
"With an Oculus headset in every classroom, allowing kids to experience what, to this date, has only been experienced by 12 human beings," he said.
