Current Projects

Student-initiated and led, these are the projects our members are working on this semester. If you'd like to start a project, reach out to our current Vice President.

UR Lunabotics Team

Project Leaders: Alex Saunders & Hesham Elshafey (asaunde7@u.rochester.edu, helshafe@u.rochester.edu)

UR Lunabotics is a brand-new competitive team with the goal of competing and succeeding in the NASA Lunabotics competition. Lunabotics is an international, university-based competition being run and sponsored by NASA. Teams typically develop one large robot (1.0m x 0.75m x 0.75m). This robot will compete by performing various autonomous and controlled tasks to gather points on a simulated lunar surface. Our goal is to compete this year in-person at NASA Kennedy Space Center using a fully autonomous robot. Lunabotics is open to all members regardless of skill level. Please email any captain for details about Lunabotics and information about the project's weekly meetings over Discord (https://discord.gg/SrVBXUm).

MATE Team

Project Leader: Hesham Elshafey

The MATE competition challenges K-12, community college, and university students from all over the world to design and build ROVs to tackle missions modeled after scenarios from the ocean workplace. The competition’s class structure of beginner, intermediate, and advanced complements the education pipeline by providing students with the opportunity to build upon their skills – and the application of those skills – as they engineer increasingly more complex ROVs for increasingly more complex mission tasks.