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Tier Tables.
Each sponsorship opportunity is developed on a case-by-case basis, ensuring that every collaboration aligns with your organization's objectives, audience, and desired impact. We work closely with partners to create meaningful opportunities that deliver value for both your brand and our mission.
Our business team responds to all inquiries within 48 hours. Every sponsorship is scoped individually around your organization's goals.
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The case
for KARURA
Sponsorships with KARURA are not logo placements, they are engineering deployments. Your components, your technology, and your brand travel to one of the world's most demanding robotics competitions.
Real-world field testing
Your technology operates in Mars-like terrain, extreme UV, loose sediment, and temperature swings. It is the most credible field validation available to a student-engineering sponsor.
Cross-Pacific talent pipeline
100+ engineers from 30+ universities across Japan and Texas A&M. Sponsors gain direct access to a bilingual, internationally collaborative engineering cohort before they enter industry.
Institutional brand placement
KARURA competes in front of NASA judges, aerospace industry observers, and a global press audience. Your logo is on the hardware being filmed and photographed throughout.
OptoSigma provided the precision optical sensors that enabled our autonomous navigation stack at URC. Their engineering traveled to the desert with us.
Stereo depth perception system enabling sub-5cm obstacle detection at 2 m/s traverse speed.
Hiwin's linear actuators gave our robotic arm the positional accuracy we needed to pass the equipment servicing task at Finals. Off-the-shelf parts, competition-grade performance.
Sub-millimeter joint repeatability across 5 DOF under field conditions in the Utah desert.
Kikusui's power supply units powered the entire test bench for KARURA III's electrical validation. When we shipped to Hanksville, our power architecture was battle-tested.
Zero electrical failures during the 4-day competition. Full power subsystem validation achieved pre-deployment.