Two designs so far. Each one is shaped by what we learned building the last, and by what we could afford to make.
First design
Designed for the 2025 German RoboCup Rescue competition, PHRYNE is built for disaster sites: rubble, collapsed buildings and other terrain that is hard to cross.
Tracks and flippers carry it over obstacles, and a mounted arm handles precise tasks, so the same robot can support responders in many kinds of hazardous situations.
Second design
PHRYNE turned out to be too expensive to build, so we redesigned it to cost less. TUBer has more parts but is simpler to manufacture, and its materials are cheap and easy to source.
In theory it can handle every kind of terrain. Budget limits and delivery times meant we couldn't get our preferred motors, which reduces its manoeuvrability for now.
Sponsors see their products at work in our robot, get their logo on our jerseys and the robot, and can book a live demo at their own events.