Mechanical
Design, manufacture, and build the the robot, from scratch. Conceive the design, mobility from Scratch. Design in CAD, then bring it to life.
Electrical
Design PCBs, and bring the robot to life with electronics and controllers. Work together as revolutionize the systems, motors, and circuits of our robot.
Systems Engineering
EVERYTHING is Systems. Especially everything NASA. We are interdisciplinary team that involves designing, integrating, and managing our complex systems.
Programming
Bring everything to life with automation. The Future is Rover’s Driver Themselves. Work with Lidar, Rust, & test in our Utah RAPTOR Lunar Environment.
About us
What makes a National Champion Team?
Despite our national success, USR is made up of students from various majors, who work together to design, build, program, organize, do outreach, and make friends. As we work together, we become more than the sum of our parts. Every year we create projects we’re incredibly proud of, including outreach, systems work, our NASA presentation, and of course a freaking awesome Moon Rover.
What’s our Competition?
NASA Lunabotics – Lunar Construction
NASA’s Artemis Mission is going to take human’s back to form a permanent presence on the moon, and beyond to mars. This While NASA designs their solutions, they invite universities across the nation to take steps to solve the same problems.
Artemis?
NASA’s Artemis Mission is going to take human’s back to form a permanent presence on the moon, and beyond to mars.
Lunar Construction?
A permanent presence is going to require lunar construction, especially around launch sites. Hence: automated lunar construction rovers.
Why Universities?
While NASA designs a solution, they invite nations from across the country to try ours hands. NASA reserves the right to borrow from our designs, so in Florida we’re surrounded by NASA engineers curious about what we’ve made.
That sounds hard… do we even have a chance?
Oh yeah we do! Utah has a Legacy in this competition. We are decorated with Dozens of Awards, in Autonomy, Outreach, Systems, Construction, Outreach, and of course the 2025 Grand Prize, the Artemis Award itself! Now it’s your turn to build something even better next!
Why join USR?
There’s no requirements or qualifications. People join from every year, from freshman to seniors, even grad school. Most of us with little or no knowledge. Bring what you have, we’ll teach you the rest!
Make Friends
We regularly host social events, and often provide food; but more importantly working together is how we grow as a group. We have fun.
Be Inovlved
Some clubs exist only to sit & talk. We are not those clubs. We need people who want to think, innovate, design, and build the next generation of moon rover. In addition to the robot, we also conduct outreach with schools to get kids excited about stem!
The Competition
Every year our most involved members travel to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a week. We compete against schools from across the country. (Free trip anyone?)
Advisors
We work closely with faculty members from multiple departments, who provide knowledge, wisdom, and experience to our projects.
Workshops
Early in the year our subteam leads hold workshops to teach the necessary skills to eveyone who needs it. It’s a chance to learn CAD (Soldiworks, Onshape), Soldering, PCB’s, Programming Automation (Rust), and more!
Building the Robot
Are you a fan of being hands on? We manufacture, print, cut, and assemble each years robot from scratch.
