I saw the future and it’s Robocar

Roborace
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3 min readMar 2, 2017

What a week. Less than seven days after making history at the Buenos Aires ePrix, we went and did it again, but bigger.

Live on stage at Mobile World Congress we launched the future. Our CEO, Denis Sverdlov and Chief Design Officer, Daniel Simon showed how they’d made their dream of beauty and design come true, the Robocar is a huge step forward in advancing driverless electric technology.

Introducing the Robocar:

Now for the the tech bit:

  • Robocar weighs in at 975kg and measures 4.8m long and 2m wide.
  • It has 4 motors 300kW each, 540kW battery
  • Predominantly made of carbon fibre
Daniel Simon’s designs for Robocar
  • Robocar will be capable of speeds over 320kph
  • Robocar uses 5 lidars, 2 radars, 18 ultrasonic sensors, 2 optical speed sensors, 6 AI cameras
  • Powered by Nvidia’s Drive PX2 brain it’s capable of up to 24 trillion A.I operations per second, that’s right, per second.

The progress we’ve made in such a short space of time has been nothing short of astounding. The Robocar really is a huge moment for Roborace and a big step for the driverless community and we see ourselves as ambassadors for that community. With our partnership with Formula E we’re dual tracking the future as fast as we can.

If it wasn’t already clear, Robocar is a feat of engineering mixed with a beautiful dream and the response has been remarkable and we’re just getting started.

Make sure you stay tuned to our social channels and for Inside Roborace Episode 7 of Inside which will show exclusive footage of our journey in Barcelona.

You can be kept up to date with all the news from Roborace on our social channels; Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

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