Racing Cars in the Brisbane Office

As a part of Expedia Group's partnership with AWS we recently took an amazing opportunity to host a DeepRacer competition in our Brisbane office. DeepRacer is designed to introduce people of all backgrounds to Machine Learning. The goal of the competition is to engineer a control loop for an autonomous toy racing car that enables the car to complete a full circuit of a physical race track in the shortest amount of time. This control loop is constructed using a Machine Learning technique called Reinforcement Learning. Reinforcement Learning encourages an autonomous machine to perform certain actions.