Roborace
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The DevBot 2.0 self-driving race car is heading to the Goodwood Festival of Speed to run up the hill autonomously.
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Roborace's DevBot 2.0 debuts, and it actually looks cool
The organizers of Roborace, the world’s first race for self-driving cars, has revealed their second-generation prototype. It will first take to the racetrack in May 2019.
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Hot Wheels introduces Roborace self-driving race car model
Roborace has plans to take humans out of the cockpit in a futuristic machine-versus-machine race series, but before that happens, it's putting its Robocars in the hands of people—quite literally. That's because the latest Robocar is a 1:64 scale model in the form of a Hot Wheels toy. Hot...
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Enjoy this 360-degree video of Roborace's autonomous run up Goodwood hill climb
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is well known for courting some of the world's finest automobiles and high-performance machines. This year, something very different was in attendance. Roborace on Thursday tackled Goodwood's famous hill climb with its self-driving electric race car, known as the...
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Can the Roborace self-driving racer beat professional driver Ryan Tuerck?
It's a classic scenario: man versus machine. In this case, we're talking about Roborace and professional driver Ryan Tuerck. The challenge? To see if Roborace's DevBot self-driving race car is quicker around a Formula E circuit than Tuerck. Roborace first burst onto the scene in 2016 when the...
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Self-driving Roboracer does a lap at speed at the Berlin ePrix
The future is shaping up to be an interesting place. For example, self-driving cars are starting to come of age and there's even a sanctioned form of motorsport dedicated to electric cars known as the Formula E Championship. Now, self-driving cars and electric motorsports has been combined the...
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Self-driving race cars may be anathema to genuine race fans, but there’s no doubt the phenomenon has the potential to further hone the technology for road cars, which after all is one of the enduring legacies of motorsport. A company by the name of Roborace is working on the world’s first race for self-driving cars and at this week’s 2017 Mobile World Congress presented the car that will compete in the inaugural race. (The inaugural race is yet to be announced but will coincide with one of the races of the Formula E Championship.) Called the Robocar, the self-driving race...
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Roborace organizer unveils ‘DevBot’ autonomous race car prototype
The organizers of Roborace, the world’s first race for autonomous cars, has revealed one of their early stage prototypes. It’s called the DevBot, and unlike the cars that will be competing in Roborace, known as Robocars, it has a seat and steering wheel. Part of the development of the...
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Roborace autonomous racing edges closer to reality with reveal of final car design
While autonomous driving technology may still be in its infancy, there are efforts underway to get a fully autonomous racing series up and running. The series has even been given a name: Roborace. We first learned of Roborace back in March. The cars would be identical, right down the various...
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Roborace autonomous race car concept revealed
The first race between fully autonomous cars is coming—and much soon than you think. A championship called Roborace is being established and if all goes to plan will host its first race later this year. Roborace will be an exhibition-style event supporting the Formula E Championship and...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran