Roborace is the world’s first driverless racing series. It’s an extreme competition of full-size racing robots where coding teams from the USA, UK, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland all go for the win.
The series tested their technology and race formats at FIA Formula E Championship events during 2016-2018. In 2019 Roborace organized Season Alpha, which consisted of 4 trial racing events with several independent teams competing against each other for the first time. In September 2020, Roborace started its test season titled “Season Beta” and introduced the real-time mixed reality feature named “Roborace Metaverse”.
The second testing season is taking place at various locations between September 2020 and December 2021, featuring 16 races and involving mixed reality elements dubbed "Roborace Metaverse", which is based on Roborace's patented technology. The program of Season Beta competitions has gradually complicating rules arranged in a progression of so-called missions. Each mission consists of two racing rounds — one round per day. A mission plan issued by Roborace for each mission defines its objectives, rules, and point-scoring system. The key objective of Season Beta is to come to the point when the majority of competing teams have developed sufficient capability for wheel-to-wheel racing in Season 1.
As announced, Season 1 will start in 2022 by introducing a wheel-to-wheel racing format involving multiple cars on the track along with dynamic Metaverse elements.
