Team Vicharaka is a team by first and second year students in the IISc UG programmes to compete in the Unversity Rover Challenge in 2024. The University Rover Challenge (URC) is the world's premier robotics competition for college students. Held annually in the Mars Desert Research Sztation, outside Hanksville, Utah in the United States, URC challenges student teams to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside astronauts exploring the Red Planet.