Who We Are
RoboCars Inc. is a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University considered to be a birthplace of autonomous driving technology dating back to 1984. The Tartan Racing team from Carnegie Mellon won the famous 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge for autonomous vehicles – the event that triggered the creation of the global autonomous vehicle industry today.
Founding
RoboCars Inc was founded by Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer in the domain of autonomous vehicles since 2004. He directed at Carnegie Mellon the large General Motors-CMU Vehicular Information Technology and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Laboratory from 2004-2020. Raj and the GM-CMU CRL played a pivotal role in the success of Tartan Racing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge..
RoboCars Inc was founded by Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer in the domain of autonomous vehicles since 2004. He directed at Carnegie Mellon the large General Motors-CMU Vehicular Information Technology and Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Laboratory from 2004-2020. Raj and the GM-CMU CRL played a pivotal role in the success of Tartan Racing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
Raj’s work has been covered or he has been quoted very widely on TV (including CNBC, CNN, CBS and ABC) in newspapers (including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Guardian), on radio (including PBS) and on online news-sites (including The Verge, Slate, Wired).
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The RoboCars Team
The RoboCars team together has several decades of experience in building autonomous vehicles. The RoboDrive and RoboCruise software stacks have been developed in stealth and we are stepping out at CES 2026. Please see here.
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