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My robot's name is the Silver Soul. For my physical design, I created and built a “mega” drill, to be able to drill the lunar regolith, and I put a shovel connected to the front, to collect and hold the soil. For my operational design, I made it carry lots of dirt per trip to have fewer trips, rather than less dirt and more trips. I also made a specfic place in the robot where the shovel could turn and store some of the lunar soil, to make even fewer trips. My robot will handle lunar dust by having a “windshield wiper” with rubber that scraped off the dust without scraping the window.