This is the world's first autonomous racing car.

RoboRace is a planned driverless series that will see 10 teams compete to develop the best artificially intelligent controlled car. The vehicles will race at the same events -- though not the same races -- as those of the electric league Formula E.

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Developed by London-based Kinetik, the car itself is set to feature in its first 'shows' during the 2016/17 Formula E series.

While the team behind the car have given very few details about how it will work, or its size, Denis Sverdlov, from RoboRace told WIRED, when the series was announced, that the cars would have top speeds of "more than 300kph (186mph)".

The initial design for the car has been produced by Daniel Simon who said that the low aerodynamic profile is to generate the huge amounts of grip required. "It was important to us that we generate substantial downforce without unnecessary parts cluttering the car to maintain a clean and iconic look," Simon said in a press statement. "This is largely made possible by using the floor as the main aerodynamic device and we are currently developing active body parts that are more organic and seamless than solutions today."

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When they take to the track, the cars will be using the same tarmac as the Formula E cars, but take place before the main race, as the technology showcase series travels around the world.

At the November launch of the series, Formula E boss Alejandro Agag told WIRED he would like to see Google, Uber, Continental and Bosh enter their algorithms -- each team will have identical cars -- into the racing series. "We've created the first version of the APIs, so the teams can start to use the APIs to do their algorithms and use the simulations to see how it works," Sverdlov said at the time.


While the car is intended to be the first specifically designed autonomous racing car it won't be the first to tackle a racing track.

Computer scientists at Stanford University have previously adapted an Audi TTS to be completely autonomous and raced it around the Thunderhill Raceway in California. The car was able to travel between 110-120mph as it sped around the track.

Meanwhile McLaren has unveiled a brain-controlled racing car as its own f. The MP4-X was envisioned to have a morphing chassis that reforms after a crash, and an augmented cockpit showing the driver the vital statistics, and allow the driver to control the vehicle's systems using their brain.