Video library
The video record is one of the richest sources used here. This library lists 63 films and excerpts from 21 teams, filterable by team and topic and searchable by year and subject. Most are annual System Acceptance Review films; a few are long technical sessions or short excerpts that show a specific mechanism or failure. Where a public original exists, the entry links to it.
Teams own their films. Every entry carries the team as credit and links to the original where one exists, and the library never autoplays. The clips are compressed for the web; the full films remain with the teams.
Twelve clips cut from the films
These clips isolate the moments the chapters refer to. Each runs 20 to 46 seconds at 720p, carries a poster frame, and is an excerpt under the team’s credit. The full film is linked where a public original exists.
Monash: rock and suspension, 2026
Banksia on the workshop floor and then on the bench: the rocker assembly, the printed TPU tread and the hub it turns on. Full review on YouTube.
Monash: autonomous typing, 2026
The digital twin at the operator station, keyboard detection, and the arm moving the end effector to the target key. Full review on YouTube.
Missouri S&T: boulder traverse, 2026
Athena works across broken rock, then turns the arm on the same ground. The clip shows the suspension keeping contact and the chassis staying level. Full review on YouTube.
Missouri S&T: auger, 2026
The auger drives into the soil beside the front wheel, with the arm holding the head steady against the reaction. Full review on YouTube.
ARES: autonomous typing, 2026
Keyboard detection, the target coordinates, the typing tip aligned on the key, and the press. The sequence is the clearest example of the typing task in this library. Full review on YouTube.
ARES: cycloidal drive and chassis, 2026
The cycloidal reduction the team built in place of printed parts, then the chassis it drives and the field it is tested on. Full review on YouTube.
ARES: one servicing run, four views, 2025
A single servicing run seen through the operator station, a wide course camera, the arm camera and a wrist view. The layout is the load a command-and-control station carries at once.
BYU: end effector, 2026
The wrist and end effector, the new depth camera at the wrist, and the servicing tasks the assembly is built for, including the typing task. Full review on YouTube.
WVU: rock pile, 2026
Deimos on a rock pile, wheels and suspension working over loose stone. Full review on YouTube.
WVU: rollover on rock, 2023
A small test rover climbs a rock pile and rolls over at the top. The body follows the wheel that loses contact, which is the failure mode a tip test is meant to find. The library above holds the full set of WVU failure excerpts.
WVU: recovery, 2023
The rover drives a forest trail and then stops; two team members carry it back. A recovery in the field is an intervention, which costs 20 % of that mission’s points S-URC27-RULES.
URC: astronaut and rover on course, 2025
The rover crosses the course, the crew waits at the gate, and a suited astronaut works on the ground beside the rover. The full 2025 wrap-up film is in the library above.
How to read a film as evidence
A film shows what a team chose to show, in the order it chose. That makes it strong evidence for a mechanism, a layout or a failure, and weak evidence for a number unless the number is stated on screen or in the team’s own document. The clips above are used for mechanism and sequence, and no score is claimed from any of them.
What a clip can and cannot support
A clip can show that a suspension keeps contact, that an arm reaches a key, or that a rover rolled over. It cannot show that a rover is fast, light or reliable, because the edit removes the rest of the run. Where a chapter needs a mass, a score or a time, the claim resolves to a measured value and a document.
Credits and reuse
Team films remain the property of the teams. The library credits the publisher of each film and links the original where one exists. The twelve clips are excerpts made for this reference, credited to the team that published the source film; they are not new works and carry no separate licence. Library embeds use the privacy-friendly YouTube domain and load no player until asked. Local clips are served from this site, carry the team’s credit and name the full film where a public original exists.
Sources for this page
- S-URC27-RULESUniversity Rover Challenge 2027 – Requirements and GuidelinesOriginal Archived copy