F1TENTH 101: a beginner's guide to autonomous racing
What the 1/10-scale platform is, what's bolted to the car, and how a LiDAR scan turns into a steering angle — the short version, for anyone starting out.
Best lap
00:41.8
Yokohama · ICRA 24
Top speed
9.4 m/s
Sim · Sep 25
Members
14
EEE · CCE · MAE
Races
4
3 countries
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Who we are
DeepSpeed is Nanyang Technological University's autonomous racing team. We design, build, and program 1:10 scale race cars that drive themselves — perception, planning, and control, all written in-house.
14 members across EEE, CCE, and MAE. One car. 8 hours a week, more before a race.
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What is RoboRacer
RoboRacer — formerly F1Tenth — is the international autonomous racing league. 1:10 scale cars, real tracks, no drivers.
Read the beginner's guide
Our car · scale 1 : 10
Scale1 : 10 · ~4 kg
SensingLiDAR + IMU
ComputeOnboard · Jetson Orin NX
FormatHead-to-head · 10 laps
Win conditionFastest clean lap
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From the pit notes
Race reports, engineering write-ups, and what we learned soldering at 2am. Written by the team, for anyone building fast robots.
All pit notesRacing the full stack at ICRA 2026
6th of 78 in sim qualifying, top-10 on the physical track, and our complete autonomy pipeline's first race — five days at the 27th RoboRacer competition in Vienna.
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Join the team
Applications open on a yearly basis. We expect ROS 2 and comfort with C++ or Python. Follow our social media for when positions open.
Application cycle over — follow on social media for more§ 05
Sponsors
We race with your logo on the shell. Sponsorship goes straight to the grid — compute, travel, and tires.
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