Anki Overdrive lets players create their own track and race robotic cars with AI through a video-game app. Brian Reinert Remember electric slot cars, the ones that invariably flew off the track?

Anki put six years of artificial intelligence research to good use when it launched its robot battle-car racing game in the fall of 2013. Now it is revealing a major upgrade that will enable players ...

Four of Anki Overdrive's racers line up at the start line, to compete against one another. Nick Deel/International Business Times When it comes to toys, slot car tracks are traditionally known as ...

Anki’s latest connected car-racing experience is lots of fun right out of the box, but the expansion kits disappoint. If the name isn’t a dead giveaway, Anki Overdrive takes the previous experience to ...

Anki Overdrive might have been my favorite toy of 2015. The newfangled racing system, which lets you drive and battle real-world vehicles on slick, modular tracks using a smartphone or tablet, is ...

The coolest connected toys of 2015 are back for round two this fall. Sphero has just rolled out (sorry) the similar BB-9E and the even grander R2-D2 (follow-ups to its delightful app-controlled BB-8), ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. Having seen Anki Overdrive back in February I thought I'd seen most of what ...

Anki has announced that Anki Overdrive, its new racing game, will begin shipping on September 20 in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. Like its predecessor, Anki Drive, this is a racing game with a ...

Think of Anki Overdrive as slot cars for the smartphone age. With upgrades, achievements and characters, it’s a perfect marriage of smartphones with physical toys. The system debuted two years ago and ...

Before its adorable little robot Cozmo arrived on the scene, Anki was in the business of making smart toy cars. The hardware startup’s robotic race car line Overdrive is getting a pretty high profile ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andy Robertson reports on technology & digital play. As you can see in the videos here the Anki Overdrive racing action happens on ...

Two years ago, Anki introduced itself to the world at the Apple WWDC keynote with robotic race cars that could maneuver around the track all on their own. The company has grown substantially since ...