The Astronautic Student Research Group and the Robotics Student Research Group will be representing the Warsaw University of Technology in the international competition for students creating Mars rovers. We are thus the only university in the starting lineup to have more than one team in the 2019 University Rover Challenge Finals.

The Astronautic Student Research Group secured their spot in the competition with their Sirius rover, a product of the efforts by the Group’s Robotics Section. The Robotics Student Research Group will show their HAL-062 rover, which has already competed in the 2018 URC.

You can follow the work on these robots on the Groups’ respective Facebook pages: SKA and KNR.

Our Student Research Groups both operate at the WUT Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering. Both projects are funded under the “The Best of the Best! 3.0” Programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

The University Rover Challenge (URC) is a prestigious robotics competition for college student teams from all over the world. Their challenge is to design and build the most technologically advanced Mars rovers possible. The student-designed robots will have to perform a number of tasks under the Mars-like conditions of the Utah desert in the United States.

This year, 36 teams from 10 countries, including 8 teams from Poland, have qualified for the URC Finals. Other Polish universities represented at the University Rover Challenge in addition to the Warsaw University of Technology are: the Czestochowa University of Technology; the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow; the Kielce University of Technology; the Rzeszow University of Technology; the Wroclaw University of Technology; and the Bialystok University of Technology.