Robot "Pet" Follows Human

I programmed the Mouse robot to continually spin in a circle until the infrared range finder detects a nearby object. At that point, the robot moves forward until the object is very near and the robot stops. If the object moves away, the robot once again spins around, looking for another nearby object.

Robodyssey Systems manufactures the Mouse robot and RAMB II motherboard you see here. The robot's brain is NetMedia's BX-24 microcontroller, which is programmed using the BasicX language. I am the author of the world's only BasicX textbook; if you are interested in learning how to program your own robot, see my website at www.basicxandrobotics.com.

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[rentman1995]

How about a robot family, one that finds a path through a room and another few that just follow it.

[SobaniForce]

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[raiderhawg]

That's cool, but the next step would be object recognition. It would stop at a wall if that's what it saw. This could have some cool implications, such as a robot cart that follows someone around like that with a heavy load.

[SaikoFTW]

Awesome!

[killa34334]

i think he has something inside his shoes

[Hippie1abc]

it loves you^^

[celledge]

very cool robot, im trying to learn to make one for my schools science fair, is there any really mundane ways to make this?(if this is very complicated)