AWS Deepracer Roadmap for 2020
In 2018…
AWS Launched the Deepracer at re:Invent 2018. Since then buzz around the autonomous car is been growing rapidly.
In 2019…
AWS hosted the “Deepracer League” in 22 cities all around the globe. Participants could also race in the virtual league that was held every month (for more details). Winners at each summit and at each virtual circuit got an expense paid trip to Las Vegas and participate in AWS Deepracer League at re:Invent 2019.
In 2020…
AWS plans to host the official “Deepracer League” in 30 cities this time. Even if there is no “Official Deepracer League”[1] in your city, most likely you would be having a Deepracer league at your nearest summit (for more details). You can attend these summits and race. If you looking for a way to attend re:Invent 2020, you can participate and win in the 24 ‘virtual circuits’ races that you can join from anywhere in the world.
What has changed since Inception?
Deepracer started with the basic idea of developers learning about Reinforcement Learning (RL) with the fun of racing against someone. This idea has helped a lot of developers around the world with no Machine Learning (ML) background to get started with RL.
The Idea of just racing against time on a plane race track was good, but now it’s growing in 2020. With the introduction of AWS Deepracer Evo AWS will add Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor which can help detect and avoid any obstacle. This year AWS also plans to introduce head-to-head racing, which means racing against another Deepracer that is on the same track.
So what can you do??
- Learn how to build your model on AWS. (you can refer to “Getting Started with Deepracer (2020 edition)” for a step-by-step tutorial.
- Participate in AWS Deepracer League at your nearest summit
- Participate in Virtual Circuits from anywhere in the world
How will it help you?
- It can get you on-boarded onto AWS if you’re not familiar with it.
- Get an expense paid trip to Las Vegas and participate in Deepracer League at re:Invent 2020 (If you win at any official summit).
- It will get you started with Machine Learning.
- You get to meet amazing community members with the same passion for ML and racing.
Get more help form Deepracer Global Community — here
Watch Video’s from Deepracer Experts Bootcamp — here.
[1] Official Deepracer Leagues are the ones that AWS announces of their website and considers these race winners for the re:Invent.
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