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Aten has been created to withstand all types of challenges when collecting lunar soil on the moon. Aten is surrounded by solar panels to provide extra power. Aten will have a rotating storage chamber that is shaped like a sphere with a retractable claw arm that will be able to extend up to 5 feet. Because the robot is built as a cube and the soil chamber is a sphere, there will be space in between the sphere and cube that will be used to store the mechanics of the robot. Because transportation is so important, there will be a specialized wheel system to move the robot. There will be tracks on all sides of the bot but instead of normal wheels, they will be spheres so that the robot can go in any direction. The wheels will have suspension so that they can go over craters and rocks easily.