Our Robots
University Rover Challenge (URC)
Held annually in the desert of southern Utah in the United States, URC is an international college robotics competition that challenges student teams to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside astronauts exploring the Red Planet. We've been participating in URC since 2016, competing among hundreds of top university teams around the world.
Our latest robot
We're proud to present our latest robot, Nebula, which we've spent the past year building for URC 2024.
Take a look at our System Acceptance Review (SAR) submission to see Nebula in action!
URC 2024
Past robots
URC 2023
URC 2019
URC 2018
URC 2017
URC 2016
Outreach
The Outreach subteam, which operates independently from the competitions, builds special robots for events to inspire and educate the community about robotics and STEM.
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Events
Engineering Expo
Engineering Expo is an event hosted by the College of Engineering, showcasing various student organizations and engineering companies on the engineering campus. Usually hosted in the later half of the academic year's second semester, we use Expo as a great opportunity to show off our latest work.
Maker Faire Milwaukee
Maker Faire Milwaukee is an annually held event, open to the Milwaukee public. Various exhibitors, known as "makers", are invited to show off their work. Wisconsin Robotics attends and demonstrates our current projects to the public.
Wisconsin Robotics at Maker Faire Milwaukee 2023
Wisconsin Science Festival
Wisconsin Science Festival is an annual event hosted by the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery, seeking to showcase various organizations and their work for the public to see. Wisconsin Robotics has regularly attended, having a booth to allow us to demonstrate our robots to the public.
Robot Block Party
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL hosts a yearly event called the Robot Block Party. Various robotic-based student organizations are invited to attend. Wisconsin Robotics brings our latest competition robot prototype and demonstrates it to the public.
The Community
In addition to our larger events, Wisconsin Robotics regularly hosts events with smaller groups, including girl scouts and K-12 students. We demonstrate our projects while also answering questions about the various fields of STEM, hoping to inspire younger students in the same way many of our members were when they were younger.
Other robots
Miscellaneous robots that we've built for various competitions and events!
BotShot 2019
RASC-AL 2014
IGVC 2013
