A prototype rover under test at ESA's Automation & Planetary Robotics Lab (APRL), nicknamed the ‘Mars Yard’. Based at ESA’s technical centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the facility is part of the Agency’s Automation & Robotics Section.
The APRL's goal is to prototype automation and planetary robotics related technologies, provide robotics systems integration expertise to combine the research outputs of several robotics activities with European industry, as well as provide the facilities to test rover platforms and planetary robotic arms.