The Future of RC

In recent years radio controlled cars have increasingly become smaller and more dynamic. Even on a micro scale their parts can be upgraded for better performance.

Key upgrade features usually include motors, tires, dampers and other precision parts. The characteristics of your car improve and are distinct with each additional upgrade and tweak. You can even gain some advantages on various tracks and courses if you know how to tweak your RC just right. That is why serious racers take such a great deal of time setting up their cars.   Kyosho’s Mini-Z has helped take micro sport places they’ve never been before. Despite the significant success created by Mini-Z  fan base has dwindled and new releases for cars have been lagging. Will Kyosho redesign this product from the ground up? How will it evolve from here? One thing for sure they will have to release a whole new fleet of auto scale bodies of current cars to ignite new hobbyist. If that doesn’t spark up the interest what will?

            If the guys from Anki have anything to do with it they just might set new standards for future indoor racing. Anki is an artificial intelligence co. They just released a new product called Anki Drive, which are micro RC cars with AI built in. If you haven’t heard of them you soon will. They took first stage at Apple’s summer 2013 product event announcement.  You can learn more about them on the web.

So what does that have to do with anything? Well if you could imaging being a driver and the race manager at the same time you could tell your car to overtake maintain a good lap or watch out for cars that are seconds behind.  This is just the beginning of Anki’s enterprise but the technology behind it has potential. We can only wait to see how this unfolds.