{"id":2806,"date":"2026-06-15T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/meet-the-team-star-bots\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:26:00","slug":"meet-the-team-star-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/meet-the-team-star-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team: STAR-BOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/06\/the_star-bots_team\/27327985-1-eng-GB\/The_STAR-BOTS_Team_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"The STAR-BOTS Team\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The STAR-BOTS experiment from the University of Bologna, Italy, is addressing the complex challenges of modern space operations, focusing on the development and validation of advanced coordination strategies for multi-robot systems in orbit. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy_Experiments_programme\/New_student_teams_for_ESA_Academy_Experiments_Programme\" target=\"_blank\">team has been selected<\/a> in February 2026 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy_Experiments_programme\/About_the_ESA_Academy_Experiments_programme\" target=\"_blank\">ESA Academy Experiments Programme<\/a>, which will support their project by providing access to a testing facility and technical guidance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The STAR-BOTS experiment from the University of Bologna, Italy, is addressing the complex challenges of modern space operations, focusing on the development and validation of advanced coordination strategies for multi-robot systems in orbit. The team has been selected in February 2026 for the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, which will support their project by providing access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}