Run classes & competitions

Ideas and tools for running PhysiCar AI with a group — online or offline.

Teaching in the simulator

The whole class can work in the simulator. Students each launch their own cloud simulator session — the time they use is deducted from credits, and for classroom students, from your sponsor limit. You manage costs and models from your classroom.

Build a meaningful world

Use the Custom World Builder to design a track that means something to your group — your school, your city, a hospital-and-police-station town.

Publish the world with classroom visibility and your students find it right in the simulator's world list; a share link installs it for anyone else. You can keep up to 10 published worlds per account, and each stays up for 180 days.

Run an evaluation

Turn a world into an auto-judged assignment:

1. In the World Builder's Evaluation panel, write the rules: what counts as the record and whether lower or higher is better, the time limit (default 180 s), the robot generation it applies to (keeps records fair), and the judging script itself (Python). Students enter the command that starts their own program when they start.
2. Publish the world to your classroom.
3. Students install the world in the simulator and press the ⚑ (Evaluation) button in the 3D viewer — the simulator starts their program and measures the record automatically; every open viewer sees the same run.

Offline competitions

For a hands-on event with real robots:

1. Print the track (World Builder → Print) and lay it on the floor.
2. Students run the racers they trained in the supervised-learning or racing projects on it.
3. Time the laps with the Racing Lap Timer — add the Remote Traffic Light and signal violations are penalized.

Buying hardware

For real robots, the official track, fences, and accessories — see the Store. Contact us about class-set (bulk) orders.

Learn more

Classroom costs & policy → Classroom & billing. Building worlds step by step → Build your own track (World Builder).