Inside the BeatBot an Arduino reads 9 infrared sensors for line detection at 100 samples a second. A digital servo controls the Ackerman steering mechanism to follow the line on the track or floor.

Check out the fruit from the Electronic Product Design Project Competition, run by City University of Hong Kong. It involves an Arduino Leonardo. The challenge was, using an Arduino based robot, to ...

If you wanted to make a fancy line-following robot that could handle 5-way intersections and barcode commands this would be a no-brainer. We’ve seen other smart cameras like OpenMV before.

But the BeatBot is a programmable, self-driving, line-following robot made to push runners by giving them a real visual target to beat. Kind of like dog racing for humans.