[rcheu]

BW has more than enough players to challenge the AI, there's still plenty of players like Bisu, Flash, Effort, NaDa, etc. There's going to be multiple BW tournaments broadcast this year too.

I think there's no need to make it use a keyboard/mouse, you should just add in some human like constraints that are assumed in the game (some limit on APM, some delay between moving the screen and being able to take an action/observe the state).

The interesting part would be whether they can build an AI, not a robot. It's unfortunate that both games are pretty figured out at this point though, it'd be interesting to see if an AI could be made that could react to a big metagame change like http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Bisu_Build

[ajuc]

Another thing favouring sc2 is - micro is less important in sc2 than in sc1 (bw).

Still, if there's no api then there's no point complaining.