“Old” news but we’re still totally into this. NERO is unique game, short for Neuro Evolving Robotic Operatives, which is actually an active research project run by students of the Computer Sciences and Digital Media Collaboratory departments of the University of Texas at Austin. NERO lets you adapt intelligent agents (in this case your robots) hands on, evolving your robot army by tuning their AI by performing various tasks. After training your bot army, you can then go face to face with your friends’ armies in online competitions in an RTS-style deathmatch.

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