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Arduino Uno used to create a human following car/robot, all with parts that you can find online for only a few bucks each ...

Randy Sarafan, who also happens to be the Technology Editor over on Instructables, gutted a remote-controlled car and swapped the parts for an Arduino board.

[Dave] wanted to make an Arduino robot out of a remote-control 1950 Mercury. He removed the RC portion from the car and kept the drive and steering motors. The idea was to use three ultrasonic ...

A perl script running on the iPhone will then send the command to the Arduino. When it receives the start command, the Arduino will ground the wire to the remote start and fire up the car.

As far as consumer humanoid robots go, Aldebaran Robotics' NAO is certainly one of the more capable. Now, the li'l bot can also drive a car – if that car is its new miniature electric BMW Z4.

Makers and hobbyists that enjoy building Arduino projects, might be interested in this new open hardware and DIY robot kit called PopPet, which can be programmed using the Arduino platform.