The GOAT Racer course

Teach a real car to drive itself.

Drive the car in your browser. Train a policy on a cloud GPU and watch it learn. Race it. Then put it on the real car.

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Hello Racer, the race and one vision lab need no account. The other labs and a GPU run need one: ask your instructor for an invite code. Want your own car? Buy a GOAT Racer at cryptide.com.

The real car, on a track in our office.

The GOAT Racer: a Traxxas rally chassis carrying a Jetson Orin, a depth camera and a lidar — The car A 1/10 rally chassis with a Jetson Orin, a depth camera and a lidar. The simulator is its digital twin, so the policy you train here is the policy it drives. See the cars at cryptide.com →

The simulated car on the oval track, with the 24 green lidar rays fanned out ahead of it — Drive Hello Racer: the car on the real track geometry, and the lidar rays the policy sees. Keys or a gamepad. No account. Drive →

The race: the simulated car on the Laguna Seca track with the lap timer and a minimap — Race Race the trained policy in your browser on 21 F1TENTH circuits. With an account your best lap goes on the board, checked by a re-run of your inputs on the server. Race →

A replay of a trained policy driving between the orange track walls — Train One click trains 1024 copies of the car on a cloud GPU. You watch the reward curve live. Minutes later you have a replay of your policy and the file the real car loads. See a run →

A reward curve from a training run, rising from below zero to a plateau — Learn to read it The second lab trains five times longer on purpose. The curve peaks and slides, and you learn to pick a policy by evidence, not by run length. Open the lab →

Sim to real

The same policy, in the sim and on the car

The simulator is a digital twin of the car. A policy you train in the cloud is the file the real car loads, with no change.

In the sim A trained policy on the twin, with the readout you see in the labs.

On the car The real car on a track made of duct hose.

See the full loop on the NVIDIA livestream.

The course

Nine labs, from your first drive to the real car

Start here

Meet the car, then the twin it is trained on.

Train

Hand the wheel over: train a policy and watch it drive.

See

A waypoint from a tag, then the open path from depth; then your code pulls the wheel while you drive.

Real car

Make a track, train the car's own policy on tracks like it, and prove the car can drive it.

See every lab Read the docs

Plans

Start free. Train on a cloud GPU when you are ready.

Free

0 USD

Hello Racer, The Twin, Seeing the Path, the First Training preview, and the race.

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Training

64 USD a month

16 GPU hours of training each month for the training labs. Opens soon: create an account to be first.

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Your own car

from 2,700 USD

GOAT RACER 3, or GOAT RACER LEAN on pre-order. Battery, charger, and hard case in the box.

See the cars →

Coming soon

No car? Send your policy to ours.

Train in the cloud, then run your policy on a real GOAT Racer in our lab. You get the video and the telemetry back. Tell me when it opens.

Questions

Before you start

Do I need a GPU?

No. Training runs on a cloud GPU. Your browser shows the live reward curve and the replay.

Do I need a car?

No. Every lab runs in your browser and on the cloud. The car is the last step, when you want your policy on real hardware.

What do I learn?

How a robot car senses and moves, its digital twin, reinforcement learning, how to read a training curve, vision from a depth camera, and how a policy goes from the simulator to the car.

Where are the docs?

At docs.goatracer.ai: getting started, the labs, and the car.