COMPETITIONS
UNIVERSITY ROVER CHALLENGE
INDIAN ROVER CHALLANGE
University Rover Challenge is a robotics competition
held annually at the Mars Desert Reasearch Station
organized by Mars Society, USA. Mars Society is the
world’s largest space advocacy organization
dedicated to the human exploration and settlement
of the planet Mars. The challenge is to build a
next-generation Mars Rover capable of working
alongsidehumans in extraterrestrial conditions.
Indian Rover Challenge is a robotics and space explo-
ration based competition organized by Creation Labs
a student driven space set of VIT university. It was
launched in January 2018 and is the first of its kind
competition in Asia. The participating teams design
and build a Martian rover prototype and use that rover
to compete in various tasks at a designated location.
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