The prize money, a whopping $30 million (£18.5 million) would go to the team that would first build the robotic explorer to send back videos, as it travels over 500 meters on the lunar surface.

The competition, which was first announced in 2007, could find a winner by the year 2015.

“The official private race to the Moon is on,” said Peter Diamandis, Chief Executive of the X-Prize Foundation.

Moon explorers

The outburst against robosexuals occurred during Robert Broadus' testimony, which was given against the gay-marriage legislation. This case is presently lying before Maryland legislature.

Sex with robots already a reality
Broadus, who leads Protect Marriage Maryland said, "If you pass this bill, you will set the groundwork, that one day when artificial intelligence is that advanced, we will be considering whether or not people can marry their androids. ... If you say that any two people who love each other can get married, then you set that precedent.”

The Q4 2010 result of the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker was declared by IDC, in collaboration with the senior research analyst Ramon Llamas.

Commenting on the results, Llamas said, "Android continues to gain by leaps and bounds, helping to drive the smartphone market. It has become the cornerstone of multiple vendors' smartphone strategies, and has quickly become a challenger to market leader Symbian.”