Roborace

A piece of history has gone down at the Monteblanco racetrack in Spain, with the world's first fully autonomous car race completed last week. Two teams pitted code and cars against one another, with Team Arrival beating out the Technical University of Munich to take the first ever Roborace win.

​This weekend, the Goodwood Festival of Speed is hosting its annual hill climb, where sporty cars old and new zip around the Duke of Richmond's estate. This year, an autonomous race car is driving itself around the 1.16 mile track. Now you can see exactly what that's like in a 360° video.​

​Every year, the Goodwood Festival of Speed sees classic race cars tackle a mile long hill climb in the grounds of Goodwood House in West Sussex, UK. This year, a fully autonomous electric race car will attempt the hill climb for the very first time.​

RoboRace is shaping up as an intriguing motorsport category, but there's still plenty of work to be done before autonomous racers are trading paint like their human-driven counterparts. This footage taken on board a DevBot prototype around the Berlin ePrix Circuit proves that point.

Roborace has attracted plenty of interest since it was announced in 2015, but that hasn't been backed up by much action on the track – until now. Roborace has taken the Robocar for an autonomous lap of the Formula E track in Paris.

With testing underway for the 2017 F1 season, you could be forgiven for forgetting about Roborace. After a ​long gestation period, the as-yet unproven competition has finally revealed the car that teams will be programming, and it looks absolutely wild.

Two Roborace DevBot cars zipped around the Formula E circuit in Buenos Aires at the weekend. The battle between DB1 and DB2 on the city street track on Feb 18 marked the first time two cars have been raced together, though only one driverless racer made it to the finish line.

​When Roborace kicks off, it will be the world's first racing series for driverless cars. Details about the car's design have been released, but until now there's been no video of a driverless racer on the track. The first fleeting glimpses of a development mule labelled DevBot have been revealed. ​

Anyone who thinks racing is all about the drivers is in for a rude shock. Roborace will run alongside Formula E, but details about how the cars would actually work have been hard to come by. Now, we finally have a bit more info about what will make it tick.