What is "roborace"

Roborace will be a motorsport championship with autonomously driving, electrically powered vehicles. The series will be held on the same tracks as the Formula E championship season, Roborace leasing the tracks and adapting them. This will be the first global championship for driverless cars.

The first race is intended to take place during the 2016–17 Formula E season, on the same circuits as the main championship. Ten teams, each with two driverless cars, will compete in one-hour races over the full season. All teams will have the same cars, but will develop their own real-time computing algorithms and artificial intelligence technologies.

The cars will be manufactured by a company called Kinetik, which announced that the cars would be capable of top speeds of more than . They were designed by Daniel Simon.