Anki Overdrive will feature configurable race tracks.
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Anki Overdrive will overhaul the robot battle-car racing game with customizable tracks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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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 to create customizable race tracks and drive up to six new cars.

The Anki Overdrive base package will debut for $150 this September. That may sound like a lot for toy racing cars. But the A.I. in these cars is very high end, and the overall system is starting to look brilliant. The brilliant financial part is that Anki has now made it possible for its racing-car enthusiasts to spend a large amount of money to build their own dream race tracks.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.