In its ADAS Expo Europe 2024 conference preview edition this spring, ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International magazine features AI Racing Tech's newly branded blue-and-gold AV-24 on the cover and centerfold to highlight its report on the next-gen autonomous vehicle platform. The story, which includes interviews with team members, also notes that AI Racing Tech was "the first team to volunteer an AI test driver for the AV-24, beginning with shakedown sessions at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in November 2023."

"The Indy Autonomous Challenge... is taking motorsport's tradition of proving new technologies into the autonomous era," they write.

See "Right On Track: Indy Autonomous Challenge."

Apr. 22, 2024 - PRI Magazine reports on the rapid advances of autonomous racing around the globe, interviewing AI Racing Tech team members on the state of the field.

“Autonomy is still a huge research area in industry and in academia, and in many ways, it is still an unsolved problem," says C.K. Wolfe, UC Berkeley program manager for Research Operations and Technical Projects. "We’re writing code that can make decisions in real time and execute those decisions in an adversarial head-to-head competition."

See the full story, "Special Report: Autonomous Racing."

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Mar. 28, 2024 - The FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality at UC Berkeley, an engineering academic center devoted to research on Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality, announces its newest industry partnership, with BeamNG, a leading simulation engine software company based in Bremen, Germany. Among the Center’s projects, its Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) program has the most synergies with BeamNG. ROAR leads the multi-university AI Racing Tech team, currently the top-ranked U.S. team in the international Indy Autonomous Challenge.

See the full FHL Vive Center announcement. 

Feb. 4, 2024 - BBC News: The Indy Autonomous Challenge is a car race with a difference. All the racing cars are driven using Artificial Intelligence coded by research teams from universities across the world. Some of the autonomous vehicles have reached speeds of up to 180 mph.

"There's a very small percentage of people in the world who can actually race these cars - imagine getting a team of software engineers together and make that a reality... It's not a trivial task,” says C.K. Wolfe, UC Berkeley program manager.

See BBC Click Video 

Jan. 29, 2024 - At CES®2024, the Indy Autonomous Challenge took a giant leap into the future with the unveiling of the IAC AV-24, which embodies a fusion of cutting-edge hardware and advanced software, setting a new standard in the realm of autonomous racing.

"We're really excited to explore the new capabilities this new car has to offer and really push the limits and see how fast we can get this car to go," says C.K. Wolfe, UC Berkeley program manager (0:33).

See "Unleashing the Future: IAC's Revolutionary Autonomous Breakthroughs." (IAC Video) 

Jan. 29, 2024 - Featuring Paul Mitchell, IAC; Alvaro Velasquez, DARPA; Tino Schulze, dSPACE; and C.K. Wolfe, AI Racing Tech, University of California, Berkeley, the panel focused on several critical aspects of AI driver training and the transition from simulation to real-world applications. “We’re not acting in a cooperative environment; this is an adversarial, head-to-head environment, where you're pitting two autonomous race cars against each other. And may the best software win,” said Wolfe.

See IAC Video. 

Dec. 15, 2023 - The University of California, Berkeley, Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) program, together with its multi-university partners comprising the AI Racing Tech team, will serve among three leading international teams to test out the next-gen Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) racecar. The updated world’s fastest and most advanced autonomous racecar will be unveiled at CES 2024, held January 9-12 in Las Vegas, NV.

See the full story at UC Berkeley ROAR.

Sept. 20, 2023 - The AI Racing Tech team led by UC Berkeley’s Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) program achieved the fastest autonomous lap time ever recorded on the U.S. Road Course track, at 1 minute 27 seconds at the Putnam Park Road Course in Greencastle, Indiana on August 31. The team’s custom Dallara AV-21 racecar broke the previous autonomous course record of 2 minutes 9 seconds.

Read the full story at UC Berkeley ROAR. 

Nov. 14, 2022 - "We are beyond thrilled to cap out our 2022 experience with a Runner-Up Silver Medal win for the Indy Autonomous Challenge at Dallas," writes Professor Allen Yang, executive director of the FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality at UC Berkeley. "A strong 2022 finish for ROAR Racing and ROAR Academy."

Read the full story at UC Berkeley ROAR.