I am one of the organizers of the AI Driving Olympics at NIPS 2018, in which 6 universities are involved (ETH Zürich, U. Montréal / MILA, Georgia Tech, Tsinghua, NCTU, TTIC), plus 2 industry partners (self-driving car company nuTonomy and Amazon Web Services).

We are excited because this is going to be the first robotic competition at a machine learning conference: you send your code - we run it on our robots.

Or, you can get a robot yourself through the Kickstarter run by our non-profit foundation:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/163162211/duckietown-a-playful-road-to-learning-robotics-and?ref=3cul9g

AMA in the comments.