The First Full Scale Race between Robot Racers
Submitted by tatwood on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 14:55
The BBC reported that the vehicle that did not crash achieved a top speed of 116mph and completed the course.
"One of the cars was trying to perform a manoeuvre, and it went really full-throttle and took the corner quite sharply and caught the edge of the barrier," Roborace's chief marketing officer Justin Cooke told the BBC.
The report continued, "The Devbots are controlled by artificial intelligence software - rather than being remote-controlled by humans - and use a laser-based Lidar (light detection and ranging) system and other sensors to guide themselves. They also communicate to avoid collisions with each other."