Past Rovers
2023
Atlas
Our 2023 rover, Atlas, featured redesigns to the arm to improve control and visibility by implementing absolute rotary encoders which provide precise positional information. Our new 3D printed wheels on the drivetrain are more light and reliable.
2022
Orion
Our 2022 rover, Orion, featured improvements in the arm, allowing it to be three times stronger than previous iterations while being lighter. This year, the AstroTech sub-team redesigned the onboard soil and rock analysis, which included adding a spectroscopy system.
2021
Odyssey
Our 2021 rover, Odyssey, featured a newly redesigned six wheel rocker-bogie suspension system to optimize obstacle traversal. Unfortunately, we weren't able to compete in the University Rover Challenge due to its cancellation because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we hope to take what we learned this year to our future designs.
2020
Argos
Our 2020 rover, Argos, built on previous successes and featured a completely redesigned arm made out of custom cycloidal gearboxes. Unfortunately, we weren't able to compete in the University Rover Challenge due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but we hope to take what we learned this year to our future designs.
2019
Artemis
Artemis, CMR's eighth rover, placed placed 6th overall and 3rd in the autonomous task. With our placement improvement from last year, we hope to carry this forward momentum into future years!
2018
Valkyrie
Valkyrie performed well at the University Rover Challenge 2018! We placed 10th overall, and fourth on the revamped autonomous task! The team faced numerous challenges along the way, but learned a great deal for upcoming years!
2017
Athena
Athena was the sixth addition to CMR's range of rovers! Fun fact: Athena is now placed for display at the Martin Y. Tang Welcome Center on North Campus at Cornell University!
2016
Chronos
Our 2016 rover, Ares, was able to accomplish the newly created Semi-Final round at the University Rover Challenge and led us to an 8th place finish out of 63 total teams. The performance included placing 1st in the Presentation task and 4th place in the Equpment Servicing task.
2015
Garcia
Our 2015 rover was named after our first faculty adviser, Professor Ephrahim Garcia, who passed away in September of 2014. He was a true inspiration and an invaluable resource to the team, and we hope to honor his legacy through our efforts in building the most robust rover to date. In particular, Garcia 2015 features a set of Ultem 9085 custom 3D-Printed Wheels as well as an Intel NUC onboard processor.
2014
Ares
Our 2014 rover, Ares, won 2nd Place in the Terrain Traversal task at the University Rover Challenge that year. Ares was also exhibited at the National Academies of Sciences at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the nation's largest STEM convention.
2013
Helios
Our 2013 rover, Helios, improved several features from the previous year's design. Helios placed 6th Place overall during competition!
2012
Eos
Eos was Cornell Mars Rover's first ever rover - CMR placed third overall at the University Rover Challenge. In 2012, the competition consisted of accomplishing a site survey, soil sample return, astronaut assistance package delivery, and equipment servicing.