Yale's student rover team, in its first year. Building for the University Rover Challenge 2027.

Yale Undergraduate Robotics Yale Exploration Rover

Built at Yale. Bound for Utah.

We're a small team building the Yale Exploration Rover: a rover that crosses a kilometre of desert on its own, works a robotic arm, and runs a life-detection experiment in the field. We'll take it to the University Rover Challenge 2027 at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah.

Robotics. MechE. EE. CS. Bio/Chem. Builders.

we have some important backers :)

  • Yale Engineering
  • SpaceX
  • Onshape
  • Altium
  • Siemens
  • Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design
  • Protospace MFG
  • Yale Science & Engineering Association

What we're doing

Our rover is a multi-dimensional effort by a group of 20 Yale undergrads.

The rover

Drives itself to GNSS targets and visual markers, delivers tools across rough ground, services a lander's panel with a five-axis arm, and analyses soil for signs of life.

The team

MechanicalLife detectionElectronicsComms and controlAutonomyDrone
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