ISRO has launched ISRO Robotics Challenge 2024 with a tagline of Let’s Build a Space Robot and is seeking registrations from all students across India by December 15, 2023.
To provide a greater opportunity for the students of the country to provide innovative solutions in the area of space robotics, it is planned to organize “ISRO Robotics Challenge-URSC 2024 (IRoC-U 2024)” with a tagline of “Let’s build a space robot”. The solutions provided by the students in IRoC-U 2024 have a greater chance of getting incorporated into ISRO’s future interplanetary robotics missions.
IRoC-U 2024 consists of an engineering project where the Institutional teams build robots to compete in an extra-terrestrial-inspired arena, performing tasks based on the real-life challenges faced by space robotics. IRoC-U is being planned as a platform for the co-development of technologies in the area of space robotics through organizing challenges.
The first three teams will be awarded based on the evaluation by the jury and the fair play attitude of the teams. Additionally, two consolation prizes are also planned.
The awards in the form of cash and institute trophy are planned as follows:
The teams qualifying for the Field Round and participating on challenge day will be awarded an appreciation certificate to each of the team members and mentors. The teams qualifying for the Quals and who have submitted the design report will be awarded participation certificates to each of the team members and mentors.
No certificates will be given to the teams who fail to submit the design report by the specified timeline. The first three prize-winning rovers (viz., places 1st, 2nd, and 3rd) will get a commemorative sticker placed on it by the organizers for each place. Each team qualifying for the Field Round and participating on the challenge day will be provided with financial assistance of Rs. 2.0 Lakhs.
Interested candidates can register via this link.
The final onsite competition to perform the required tasks is planned to be conducted at U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), Bengaluru Campus in the Month of August 2024.
