AI Racing Tech

AI Racing Tech is a multi-university program of students and faculty using autonomous racing to engage students, push untested boundaries, and drive research to ensure the highest caliber of safety for the future of commercial autonomy.
The AI Racing Tech team originated out of an Autonomous Vehicle Technology course at the University of Hawai’i, Maui, in spring 2020. In 2021, the UH-led team expanded to include faculty and students from other schools, including the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Diego, and Carnegie Mellon University, competing together as one of nine teams in the international Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC).

At IAC 2022 at Texas Motor Speedway, AI Racing Tech came in second only to PoliMOVE of Italy, establishing AI Racing Tech as the leading U.S. team in the competition. The following year, AI Racing Tech came in third at IAC 2023, held at CES in Las Vegas.


In the summer of 2023, team leadership was transferred to UC Berkeley under Allen Yang, Principal Investigator of the Robot Open Autonomous Racing (ROAR) program, which operates within the FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality at Berkeley Engineering.

In January 2024, AI Racing Tech was one of only three teams chosen from the international IAC competition to test out and showcase the new Dallara-built AV-24, the world’s fastest autonomous racecar, unveiled at CES 2024. Further testing was completed later that spring down the Kennedy Space Center runway at Cape Canaveral, and later at Kentucky Motor Speedway, in anticipation of head-to-head competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in September.