How student teams from India are building Mars rovers in their own backyard

At Delhi’s Kirori Mal College, the last thing you’d expect to see is a Mars rover. At the physics department lab—surrounded by multiple oscilloscopes and charts explaining the polarisation of light—five members of the KMC Robo Physicists team are explaining what it takes to build a Mars rover prototype without any high-end technologies and infinite resou.“For me, it had a lot to do with how a rover works because I’d done similar projects in school… But to make something from scratch, with your own knowledge and the resources at hand, is always interesting,” says Shaivee Sharma, 19, who is part of the mechanical sub-system at KMC Robo Physicists, which has around 25 members.

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