The NASA Mars Sojourner rover inspired this project (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/index1.html). I followed the mission with great enthusiasm and witnessed a giant leap in robotics that day it began roaming the Martian terrain and sending images back to earth.

This is a project book on building small robots. Each robot utilizes the PICmicro series of microcontrollers from Microchip Technologies Inc. for intelligence, navigation, motor control, and sensory readings. By changing the microcontroller programming and sensory electronics we can create a zoo of robots that includes photovores, behaviorbased (neural) robots, hexapod and bipedal walkers, and artificial vision systems that can track and follow objects.
Each robot project has something to teach.