The Arduino platform lends itself nicely to the world of robotics due to the ease of assembling the hardware and accessibility of the development environment, and this has been demonstrated very well by Jeremy Bohrer with his simple two-motor Arduino-based robot. With the addition of two bump sensors at the front, the robot can detect objects and then navigate around them. With a little more imagination and work on the sketch more diversionary options could be created, as well as controlling the speed and so on. Here's a quick video of the robot in action:
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