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2025–26
RoboSub
Our first autonomous underwater vehicle, taking the team below the surface for the first time and into a new class of competition.
Details coming soon
What we build
Our latest robots
Every year we pick a competition and design, build, and program a machine for it from scratch — mechanical, electrical, and software, all in house.
2024–25
Sumobot 2025
A 20 lb autonomous sumobot built for the National Robotics Challenge — find the opponent, and push it out of the ring.
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2022–24
IGVC
A fully autonomous ground vehicle for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition — lidar, stereo vision, and lane following over two years of entries.
View detailsMultidisciplinary by design
Autonomous ground vehicles, combat robots, underwater vehicles, and a trebuchet that throws pumpkins down Main Street. Our robots are built from scratch, so they need mechanical design, electronics, and software in equal measure — and every major is welcome on the team.
- 4
- Competition series
- 10+
- Years competing
- 2
- Labs in McLaury
Get involved
Get to know us
No experience required. Show up to a meeting or a workday and we will find you something to build.
About the team
We are the South Dakota Mines Rocker Robotics Team, part of the Mines CAMP program. Design starts in the fall semester and competition follows in the spring.
Learn moreWhen we meet
- Meetings Thursdays, 4:04 pm — M306
- Workdays Wednesdays, 5:00 pm
- Saturdays, 12:00 pm
- Labs McLaury 101 & 107
Outreach
We run demos at middle school events, festivals, and Mines events, and mentor FIRST Lego League teams around the Black Hills.
See what we doBecome part of our sponsor community
Sponsorship keeps our robots on the field — funding parts, materials, and travel to competition, and putting your name in front of the engineers graduating out of South Dakota Mines.