Educational rover platform
Horizon Seeker Rover
A remotely controlled, four-wheel-drive rover with a robotic arm and live onboard camera — built for outdoor team challenges on a full-size football oval.
Students drive using only the camera feed, then grab, carry and deliver objects across the field. Shown: a development prototype; the final design may differ.
- Live onboard camera and robotic arm with claw
- Built for the outdoors — grass, slopes, bumps and light rain
- Safety-first design with E-Stop and automatic fail-safe stop
Key capabilities
Built to explore
Camera-guided driving
An arm-mounted camera streams live video to a display, so teams navigate by camera alone — just like real remote-operations robotics.
Robotic arm and claw
A robotic arm with an open-and-close claw securely grabs, carries and releases objects on command.
All-terrain mobility
Four drive motors handle short grass, 10° slopes and 50 mm lips, with a tight turning circle of 1 m or less.
Safe by design
A latching mushroom E-Stop cuts all power, and the rover stops automatically within 1.5 m if the controller signal is lost.
All-day sessions
Designed for 5+ hours of mixed use, with drill-style batteries that swap out in under 2 minutes without tools.
Field-serviceable
Battery and fuses are reachable in 30 seconds, common faults are fixed in 5 minutes, and every repair is documented.
In the classroom
From curiosity to capability
Designed for team missions of 2–5 students, the Horizon Seeker Rover turns a field day into hands-on engineering.
Mission planning
Teams combine aerial drone scouting with ground robotics to locate, log and retrieve objects against the clock.
Remote operation
Students learn to drive and control a robotic arm using only a live camera feed, building spatial reasoning and focus.
Electronics and safety
Clearly labelled power systems, fuses and E-Stops introduce real-world electrical safety practice.
Maintenance and teamwork
Step-by-step repair guides, spare parts lists and exploded drawings let students service the rover themselves.
Specifications
Technical details
Design targets for the current development version. Final specifications may change.
- Size
- Approx. 600 × 400 × 400 mm
- Weight
- Under 45 kg, with carry handles for two people
- Drive
- 4 drive motors; zero-turn or ≤1.0 m turning radius
- Speed
- Sustained 1.8 m/s+ on grass
- Robotic arm
- Robotic arm with open-and-close claw
- Camera
- Live camera feed: H.264 WebRTC stream, with MJPEG fallback
- Control
- Handheld controllers for rover and arm
- Range
- 150 m
- Power
- 12–18 V; swappable drill-style Li-ion batteries
- Endurance
- 5+ hours of mixed use, or battery hot-swap in under 2 minutes
- Terrain
- 60 mm+ ground clearance; climbs 10° slopes and 50 mm lips
- Weather
- Operates in light rain; 0–40 °C
- Safety
- Latching E-Stop, fail-safe stop on signal loss, over-current protection
- E-Stop and admin
- E-Stop and admin controls
- Support
- User manual, quick-start guide, maintenance documentation and spare parts list