3rd Place in European Rover Challenge

(EPFL, September 10, 2021)

After just one year of preparation, a team of students from the EPFL Xplore association recently placed third in their first ever European Rover Challenge – an international competition, where academic teams from around the world build their own Martian robots from scratch and then compete to complete a series of tasks that emulate real ESA and NASA missions – as well as received an honorable mention in the "Science" and "Probing" tasks. Following this fantastic result, the team is now working to one day enter their robot in the University Rover Challenge, which is held every year in a desert in southern Utah, as well as to develop a polar robot for scientific expeditions – a first step before shooting for the moon.