Principal Investigator Sertac Karaman
Co-investigator Daniela Rus
Project Website http://driverless.mit.edu/
Project Start Date July 2018
MIT is home to cutting-edge research that benefits MIT Driverless whenever the checkered flag is waved. Roboticist and Professor Daniela Rus is just one of their trusted advisors. Rus is director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the associate director of MIT's Quest for Intelligence Core, and director of the Toyota-CSAIL Joint Research Center, which focuses on the advancement of AI research and its applications to intelligent vehicles.
MIT Driverless’ mission is to be the hub of practical autonomy at MIT - to be the place where the brightest minds come to learn about the challenges in deploying software on full scale autonomous vehicles, and to connect them with our industry partners as they look for their future engineering leaders. To do so, we build autonomous racecars and compete in competitions around the world.
The team was started in 2018. In our first competition season in 2019, we won 2nd at Italy and 3rd at Germany on the Formula Student Driverless circuit. Although COVID derailed our 2020 plans to go for first, we took advantage of the opportunity to re-think our plans for the future. Moving forwards, we plan to compete in RoboRace and the Indy Autonomous Challenge.
We partner with companies that are as equally excited as us about building the future of autonomous driving. From connecting interested students to hosting hack-a-thons, we offer many a variety of opportunities for our sponsors.