I was a Hot Wheels kid, but secretly, I pined for slot cars. Buzzing with current and fast as hell, slot car sets made by companies like Tyco and Aurora made my manually powered die-cast trinkets look ...

Anki has announced the latest iteration of its smartphone-controlled robotic car racing game. Anki Overdrive builds on the previous Anki Drive by adding modular tracks, along with improved car designs ...

Casey Newton is a contributing editor who has been writing about tech for over 10 years. He founded Platformer, a newsletter about Big Tech and democracy. Anki, whose racing game powered by artificial ...

Anki Overdrive updates its app to add new Team Battle mode for friend/grudge open races and lets players enlist help from other AI drivers to progress the Campaign. Anki Overdrive is real world racing ...

If ever there was a perfect holiday gift, the Anki Overdrive Starter Kit has to be it. It hearkens back to the days when children used to play with physical objects instead of just cell phones and ...

The new Anki OVERDRIVE: Fast & Furious Edition combines one of best-known movie franchises an incredibly intelligent racing set. At first glance it might look like just a miniature remote-controlled ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. That's why, in a move that CEO & Co-founder of Anki, Boris Sofman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anki Overdrive takes autonomous racing robot cars to the next level with click together tracks, a video game campaign, and new modes promised such as capture the flag. Anki Drive was launched in 2014 ...

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 ...