<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/international-rover-competition.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>07/22/2025</pubDate><title>University’s Robotics Team Rises to the Challenge at International Rover Competition</title><description>A dedicated group of students from the University of New Haven Robotics Club placed 13th in the world at the 2025 University Rover Challenge—outperforming teams from some of the top engineering schools in the country.</description><hide-description/><author>Caitlin Truesdale</author><author-details>Office of Marketing and Communications</author-details><hide-author/><date>July 22, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/engineering/news/2025/urc-astronaut.jpg" alt="The University's Robotics team rover competing in the URC finals."/></image><image-caption>The University's Robotics team rover competing in the URC finals.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-engineering</tag><tag>dept-ececs</tag><tag>initiative-rover-challenge</tag><tag>name-shayok-mukhopadhyay</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-ug-electrical-computer-engineering</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>