2nd Place in the 2025 Earth Rover Challenge!

Me and the Tampere Uni team placed 2nd out of the 8 AI teams in the 2025 Earth Rover Challenge organized by FrodoBots!

The 2nd Earth Rover Challenge (8 AI teams vs 5 Human Gamers taking on real-world robotic navigation missions in 8 cities) has ended! Humanity prevails!

Big shoutout to our co-organizers from Google Deepmind, Meta AI and academia & gamers from @YieldGuild

Here's how it went down… pic.twitter.com/CGrld10dwG

— FrodoBots (@frodobots) June 9, 2025

The challenge involved navigating a real rover robot through a series of GPS checkpoints in 8 distinct locations around the world, while only relying on a limited suite of onboard sensors. Our imitation learning based navigation policy performed quite nicely!

To see some of our runs, check out the video below.