Sodarace

"Sodarace is the online olympics pitting human creativity against machine learning in a competition to design robots that race over 2D terrains using the Sodaconstructor virtual construction kit."

Sodarace

Wodka info.

Artificial life

Examples and source code by Michael LaLena.
Also,
Framsticks - Artificial Life - 3D evolution and simulation,
The Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept for Self-Organizing Systems,
Jeffrey Ventrella,
Welcome to Zooland!,
Evolutionary Computation,
Biota.org: The Artificial Life Project.

3D from 2D image - III

An alternative to Carnegie Mellon's research by Microsoft.

3D from 2D image - I

Carnegie Mellon researchers teach computers to perceive 3 Dimensions in 2D images.

NERO

NERO, which stands for Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives is an experimental game of the University of Texas at Austin.
Train your soldiers!

NEAT

Evolving Increasingly Complex Neural Network Topologies.
More info.