Anki DRIVE - back to childhood

From 10 to 14 June 2013 at the Moscone West exhibition complex in San Francisco, the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, WWDC 2013, was held. This event passed by Habr. Well, I could not find this year's records. However, at this conference a new toy was presented, more precisely a toy - smart Anki DRIVE racing cars.

If you,% habrauser%, found the times “Behind the wheel”, remember the toy railways, which in the 90s replaced the cars on the control panels (including tracks) or are currently interested in robotics, copters and helicopters, then I ask cat

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Anki DRIVE - is a robotic racing cars with artificial intelligence. AI allows cars to drive without people. For example, you can play against the computer, and you can drive with friends.



Together with the cars is a vinyl track. In the car built-in small cameras, thanks to which the AI ​​can calculate its position on the track. What does he do it well and the player will be hard to beat him.

Anki DRIVE is not yet on sale, but the developer’s site already has a link to download the Anki DRIVE typewriter management application . Through this application you can manage these cars. You can steer with the accelerometer of your device, i.e. tilting it, like in many racing simulators. Of course, the player has access to gas and brake controls, as well as the ability to shoot from a virtual weapon. With the help of this weapon, as you probably guessed, you can shoot at opponents and earn points, and buy new weapons with glasses, improve them and the characteristics of the machine. Does this look like something?

All Anki cars are unique, all have their own characteristics (acceleration, energy, etc.). It will be very difficult to pump your car to the full.



The developers hope that Anki DRIVE will be a serious step in the fields of consumer robotics and artificial intelligence, which are currently in their infancy. For ordinary people, talking about technologies from these industries seems to be science fiction or they believe that such technologies are very expensive and / or available only to factories and laboratories. But Anki DRIVE will try to break these stereotypes.



Sales will begin in a week - October 23. For a set of two machines, charging and vinyl track - the developers intend to ask for $ 199. For each additional machine - $ 69. I also found information that initially sales would be limited to the territory of the United States and a small number of retailers (among which, of course, the Apple Store network).

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