The Mars rover Scorpio constructed by students of the Off-Road Scientific Club of Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology is ready for the University Rover Challenge – an international competition of these student structures, organized in the desert of Utah, in the USA.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Off-Road Science Club is one of 36 teams from 10 countries that qualified for the competition – out of 99 applicants from around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n The latest work of Wroc\u0142aw students weighs 47 kg, can move at a maximum speed of 20 km \/ h and, most importantly, can cope with an uneven surface, it can lift and screw whatever it needs, and even write a few words on the keyboard.<\/span><\/p>\n Compared to the previous rovers, the “seventh”<\/span> Scorpio is lighter, but at the same time larger and more stable. The designers improved the stiffness of the manipulator, which was a problem in the previous version of the rover. They used aluminum and composites as the main construction materials, and some of the elements were printed from plastics on 3D printers.<\/span><\/p>\n