The Pololu Zumo for Arduino (click to view)

Zumo is the tradename for the Pololu mini-Sumo robot. A Mini-Sumo robot must be less than 10cm square and weigh less than 500 grams. Any height is permitted.

Pololu provide two main types of Zumo: one functioning as a "shield" for an Arduino microcontroller board, the second, a newer version with an integrated Arduino-compatible controller, which also includes encoders and a few other nice features.

References#

• Say Hello To My Little Friend – Zumo Part I, first in a series of blog posts describing a Zumo build (also had a post on his experience building a PID controller
• Zumo Robot with Magnetic Encoders, description of a custom board developed at Lucerne University using Hall Effect encoders on a Zumo chassis; see also: Adding Quadrature Encoder to the Zumo Chassis, the earlier optical encoder version