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PUCRA

PUCRA (Polytechnic University of Catalonia Robot Association) is a student robotics association based at UPC’s Barcelona East School of Engineering. The current team qualified for the 2026 European Rover Challenge with PHOENYX-II, a rover featuring four-wheel swerve drive, rocker suspension, lightweight structure, and ROS2 autonomy on NVIDIA Jetson. The association previously developed PHOENYX-I, an autonomous rover that won the 2025 SENER-CEA Bot Talent Grand Prize and Design Award, and sustains student engineering through rover and robotics competitions.

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Planetary rovers, autonomous robotics, and competition engineering
Name
PUCRA
Region
EU
Status
active

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PUCRA (Polytechnic University of Catalonia Robot Association) is a student robotics association based at UPC’s Barcelona East School of Engineering. The current team qualified for the 2026 European Rover Challenge with PHOENYX-II, a rover featuring four-wheel swerve drive, rocker suspension, lightweight structure, and ROS2 autonomy on NVIDIA Jetson. The association previously developed PHOENYX-I, an autonomous rover that won the 2025 SENER-CEA Bot Talent Grand Prize and Design Award, and sustains student engineering through rover and robotics competitions.
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Creation Time
August 15, 2026 at 09:48:25 UTC
Updated Time
August 15, 2026 at 09:48:25 UTC