The registration of university teams for this year’s eighth European Rover Challenge has finished. In total, there were as many as 92 applications from the best technical universities, from Canada, Switzerland, Germany, India, Colombia and Greece. The ERC 2022 competition will be held on September 9-11 at the Kielce University of Technology on the world’s largest artificial Martian track.

The competition will be conducted in two formulas: offline, for robots constructed by teams, and online with the only hybrid form in the world, under which players from around the world connect remotely with the Leo mobile robot and a robotic arm located on the track in Kielce.

This year’s competition is co-organized by the European Space Foundation and the Kielce University of Technology. The European Rover Challenge takes place under the constant patronage of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Polish Space Agency.