Rovers from Poland are the best in the world! The Raptors team is composed of students from four facul-
We are one of the most titled robotic student teams in the
ties of the Lodz University of Technology who are keen on
world, winning top places at contests such as: Mohamed
designing and constructing a Mars rover for the internatio-
Bin Zayed International Robotic Challenge, European Robot
nal competition of specialist mobile robots. The project con-
League Emergency, University Rover Challenge, although it
sists in creating mechanical structures and control systems
was only two years ago that we made our debut at Univer-
for a robot built of over 2,000 elements, which took part in
sity Rover Challenge in the United States, where we were
many international robotic competitions.
ranked fifth in the world, and we won the first place and became the world champion at the biggest robotic event on the Old Continent – European Rover Challenge – only three months later.
Mateusz Kujawiński, PhD student Leader of the Raptors team building a Mars rover – the winners of the 2016 European Rover Challenge Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering Lodz University of Technology
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