On 7 January 2022, the team of Politecnico di Milano PoliMove has won in Las Vegas the Indy Autonomous Challenge, the first race where participants are vehicles with no driver at the wheel and the pilot is an Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Matteo Corno, teacher of the TechCamp course “Mobility – Towards Autonomous Vehicles” is a faculty advisor of the team.

The competition has been held during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s most important electronics fair, involving some of the most prestigious universities. The vehicles, Dallara AV-21 model, were the same for each team; the added value was the work of every single university. Trying to humanize a sport that doesn’t have human pilots as drivers, PoliMOVE has named their virtual pilot “AS.CAR.I” (AutonomouS.CAR.Intelligence), in homage to Alberto Ascari, the last Italian pilot that has won a world Formula 1 championship.

PoliMOVE is part of Politecnico’s research group mOve, that has been studying for more than 20 years the automatc control of terrestrial vehicles of every kind, from electric bikes to cars and tractors. The team works in tight collaboration with the biggest companies in the automotive industry.

Read the interview to members of PoliMOVE about their experience in Las Vegas: https://www.frontiere.polimi.it/polimove-vince-las-vegas-gara-auto-guida-autonoma/