A student team from southern Poland has won the Australian Rover Challenge 2025, an international robotics competition simulating a lunar mission.
The annual contest, hosted by the University of Adelaide in Australia, sees student teams from across the globe showcasing rovers they’ve designed and constructed themselves, tackling tough tasks in a simulated Moon setting.
This year's competition tested the ability of machines to perform tasks including navigating after landing and autonomous terrain mapping.
A team from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, southern Poland, faced a tough challenge from the University of Queensland, which held a narrow four-point lead before the final set of tasks.
Professor Jerzy Lis, president of the AGH University, said the win by the Poles was “another important moment in the history of Polish space technology.”
An AGH University team also won the University Rover Challenge in the United States last June.
Meanwhile, last year’s Australian Rover Challenge was won by students from another Polish college, the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, with their Scorpio Infinity machine.
This year's competition tested the ability of machines to perform tasks including navigating after landing and autonomous terrain mapping.
A team from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, southern Poland, faced a tough challenge from the University of Queensland, which held a narrow four-point lead before the final set of tasks.
Professor Jerzy Lis, president of the AGH University, said the win by the Poles was “another important moment in the history of Polish space technology.”
An AGH University team also won the University Rover Challenge in the United States last June.
Meanwhile, last year’s Australian Rover Challenge was won by students from another Polish college, the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, with their Scorpio Infinity machine.
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