[fbnt]

Or, more notably, Robocode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocode)

[jacques_chester]

Which was inspired by Robot Battle, in turn inspired by Robot Wars on the Apple II.

[alexkus]

I started with Robot Arena (by SPA Publishing) on the RM 380Z in the late 80s. Where's my last comment about this? Ah:-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726828

Exactly a year ago! (And no progress at all on that github repository!)