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These are open source robots called e-puck, look like lots of fun. A little out of the hobbyist budget at $700, but for a research platform that is cheap!
“The main goal of this project is to develop a miniature mobile robot for educational purposes at university level. To achieve this goal the robot needs, in our opinion, the following features:
* Good structure. The robot should have a clean mechanical structure, simple to understand. The electronics, processor structure and software has to be a good example of a clean modern system.
* Flexibility. The robot should cover a large spectrum of educational activities and should therefore have a large potential in its sensors, processing power and extensions. Potential educational fields are, for instance, mobile robotics, real-time programming, embedded systems, signal processing, image or sound feature extraction, human-machine interaction or collective systems.
* User friendly. The robot should be small and easy to exploit on a table next to a computer. It should need minimal wiring, battery operation and optimal working confort.
* Good robustness and simple maintenance. The robot should resist to student use and be simple and cheap to repair.
* Cheap. The robot, for large use, should be cheap (450-550 euros)”
Via: Robot Gossip
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October 25th, 2006
[...] Original post by Alan Parekh and software by Elliott Back [...]
October 27th, 2006
think…
they put robots ın order to make sembol then run them
and reverse the video
=))
November 6th, 2006
[...] I haven’t seen these in person, but the e-puck education robot looks interesting… (anyone poke around with these?) - “This project has been started at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne as collaboration between the Autonomous Systems Lab, the Swarm-Intelligent Systems group and the Laboratory of Intelligent System. The main goal of this project is to develop a miniature mobile robot for educational purposes at university level. To help the creation of a community inside and outside EPFL, the project is based on an open hardware concept, where all documents are distributed and submitted to a license allowing everyone to use and develop for it.” [via] - Link. [...]
November 15th, 2006
look at http://www.swarmrobot.org