Australian Rover Challenge
Australian Rover Challenge
EXTERRES Analogue Facility
Roseworthy Campus / South Australia

Australian Rover Challenge 2026 Dates
Thursday 26th March to Sunday 29th March, 2026
Roseworthy Campus, South Australia

The mission: About the Australian Rover Challenge
The Australian Rover Challenge (ARCh) is an annual robotics competition held by the University of Adelaide, where university students from across Australia and around the globe, battle it out in a full-scale Lunar mission, using semi-autonomous rovers that they have designed and built themselves.
Competitors showcase their skills in a custom built simulated lunar environment, and complete a range of tasks including navigation, resource, and construction. Unlike many other rover competitions across the world which focus on Martian exploration, the ARCh is focused specifically on completing tasks on a simulated Lunar surface.