Mechanical
Design, manufacture, and build the body of the robot, from scratch.
Electrical
Design PCBs, and bring the robot to life with electronics and controllers.
Systems
An interdisciplinary team that involves designing, integrating, and managing our complex systems.
Programming
Bring everything to life with automation. Do you like rust?
About us
USR is a small, student run team.
We are made up of students from various majors, who work together to design, build, program, organize, do outreach, and make friends.
What’s our Competition?
NASA Lunabotics – Lunar Construction
NASA’s Artemis Mission is going to take human’s back to form a permanent presence onthe moon, and beyond to mars. This While NASA designs their solutions, they invite universities across the nation to
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! Last year, (2024) USR received multiple awards, including Automation, Construction, and 3rd Place overall Nationally!
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.
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