To be clear, they are able to self-steer on the circuit. In fact, these are actually little robots, you’re not actually driving them, they’re sort of self-driving. Superficially, Anki Drive is a little bit like the slot cars that some of us may have had as children except that this doesn’t run on slots, these are little cars that run on a vinyl map that you lay out.
What is Anki Drive and why they use Amazon Web Services The presentation occurred during the AWS Meetup organized by Peter Saunkaskas of Answers for AWS. Anki is using a lot of services of AWS, the most interesting one is probably Amazon SQS that they use to manage all the queues of messages coming from the Anki’s customers. So, Anki Drive is a really fun game, but the technology behind is everything but simple.īen Whaley, Head of AWS Infrastructure at Anki, did a great job presenting how the company built its infrastructure on AWS with different and innovative approaches. The company was founded in 2010 by Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduates who sought to create new consumer experiences using technology that was once confined to robotics labs and research institutes. One of the most amazing things about AWS is the incredible numbers of startups and companies that are relying on Amazon’s Cloud Platform to power on millions of websites and applications that we use every day.Īfter the last event that I attended, AWS Summit in Milan, where I saw more than 500 people interested in AWS in a small market like the Italian one, I’m no more impressed looking at the number of companies that are using AWS, but something still gets me totally blown away when I see how that companies are using AWS and I think how they were doing this in the old days with millions of hardware bought and millions spent for data centers.Īnki Drive is one of the coolest projects you probably have seen in the last year.
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