Keilyn Carrillo

A member of the Descubre Robótica fraternity since 2022, Keilyn is currently a Mechatronics Engineering student at Invenio University. She also speaks at workshops and is part of the Women in STEM Networks community of the Costa Rican focus group of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

She is currently the strategic leader of the Wonder Mercury team, which designs and develops space systems and collaborative robotics in an astromech team environment. She was the first Costa Rican and Central American team to participate in the European Rover Challenge (ERC) in 2023. She was part of the first Costa Rican team to remotely operate the Husarion rover in the ERC 2024, achieving second place.

A member of the Costa Rica NASA Engineering Design Packet (as part of the Ames Resource Center) for rover construction and resource deployment of the Earth-Moon Econosphere, Keilyn received personalized training in the Discover Robotics program from NASA's VIPER project director and manager, Daniel Andrews.

Director of the DIGLOXY project for the construction of a swarm of rovers to obtain oxygen using carbothermal reactors.

Member of the NEURON team that develops intelligent power and energy management technology for astromechs.

Strategic and planning leader for the construction of the SIWÖ, ICER, and MARAN rover.

Coordinator of the Wonder Mercury Space Analog Laboratory for Rover Surface Mobility Tests: Mars Quadrangle. This project will be presented at IAC 2025 in Sydney, Australia.

National Winner of ExpoIngeniería with the Efficient Scientific and Collaborative Robotics Mechatronic System for Space Greenhouses with AI, 2022.

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Two-time consecutive first place winner of the RobotiFEST Aerospace Challenge.

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Finalist and first place and overall winner of the AIDAA (Italian Aeronautics and Astronautics Agency) challenge with the MARAN rover for the Global Network Forum organized by the Polytechnic University of Turin during IAC 2024.