{"id":674,"date":"2025-04-24T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/report\/674"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:41:31","slug":"%e8%b6%85%e5%b0%8f%e5%9e%8b%e6%9c%88%e9%9d%a2%e3%83%ad%e3%83%bc%e3%83%90lev-1%e3%81%8c%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e6%a9%9f%e6%a2%b0%e5%ad%a6%e4%bc%9a%e8%b3%9e%ef%bc%88%e6%8a%80%e8%a1%93%ef%bc%89%e5%8f%97-2","status":"publish","type":"report","link":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/report\/674","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-small lunar rover LEV-1 wins technology award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Thursday, April 24, 2025 at the award presentation ceremony for the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers held in Minato-ku, Tokyo, the ultra-small lunar rover LEV-1, a forerunner project in which multiple members of the Moonshot Kunii Project took part, received the 2024 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Technology Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FY2024 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Award (Technology)<br>\u201cUltra-small lunar rover achieving fully autonomous control and hopping traversal\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takao Maeda (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)<br>Kento Yoshikawa (JAXA)<br>Masatsugu Otsuki (JAXA)<br>Tetsuo Yoshimitsu (JAXA)<br>Yasuharu\u00a0Kunii (Chuo University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FY2024 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Awards announcement page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsme.or.jp\/20250314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/www.jsme.or.jp\/20250314\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers Awards are prestigious awards established in 1958 with the aim of encouraging the development of mechanical engineering and industry in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 24, 2025 at the award presentation ceremony for the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers h [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1612,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"report-tax":[],"report-tag":[],"class_list":["post-674","report","type-report","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/report"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report\/674\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"report-tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-tax?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"report-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonshot.r.chuo-u.ac.jp\/kunii\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/report-tag?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}