TEAM TECHNOCRATS ROBOTICS

ABOUT INDIAN ROVER CHALLENGE

The Indian Rover Challenge (IRC) features an engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of space exploration. Indian Rover Challenge is the only robotics and space exploration competition of its kind in Asia-Pacific which aims to ignite and encourage the spirit of innovation amongst budding engineers as they set on a quest to build a space exploration rover, using their skills and ideas. The competition challenges high school and college students to design and build next-generation Mars rover and compete in Mars-simulated conditions.

---

UNDERSTANDING INDIAN ROVER CHALLENGE

Indian Rover Challenge is a part of the Rover Challenge Series (RCS) of The Mars Society, USA. The Mars Society is the world’s largest and most influential volunteer-driven space-advocacy non-profit organization dedicated to promoting human exploration on the planet Mars. The 2019 edition of the competition took place at Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal, Karnataka, India from 9-12 January 2019

The team has made it's debut in the IRC 2019 Challenge and secured 5th rank internationally and 3rd rank amongst engineering institutes from across the Indian subcontinent.