The car has been developed by a London-based investment company called Kinetic and has enabled teams to develop their software and experience the hardware that will be used on the Roborace cars.
Roborace is a new formula of motor racing that will feature alongside Formula E events in cities across the world in the 2016-2017 season which starts in October. The driverless race series has been created to showcase cutting-edge driverless technology to the wider public.
The DevBot has a cabin that can be driven by a human or a computer allowing teams to understand how the car thinks and behaves on a racetrack alongside real-time data. The car is equipped with numerous lidar and radar sensors, strategically placed around the outside of the chassis as well as two navigation system sensors placed on top. These sensors will be managed by the Nvidia Drive PX 2, claimed to be the most advanced autonomous car platform, featuring 12 CPU cores making 24trillion operations per second. The Nvidia Drive PX 2 has its own dedicated cooling vent in the body of the car to guarantee optimum efficiency.
A large number of technology, motorsport, automotive, research laboratories and university teams have applied to take part and will be given time to experience the car before the Roborace begins in full.
The Roborace championship will feature 10 teams with two cars each, capable of reaching 190mph, competing in one-hour-long races which will showcase safety and extreme driving capabilities as well as speed.
