Bot Wheels: Anki Drive's Cars Are Tiny, High-Speed Robots

The first demo at Apple's WWDC conference keynote last Monday wasn't an Apple demo. Instead, it was from a stealthy startup showing off its stuff in public for the first time. The startup is named Anki, and the stuff was Anki Drive, a racing game with real, physical tiny motorized cars that are controlled via iPhone. Anki doesn't, however, think of itself as a toy company. Its founders are robotics scientists from Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, and the company, which has raised $50 million in fu...