BalBot - Anyone seen this?

[Alekat]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

It uses infrared sensors pointed at the ground to balance rather than gyros. It can't travel on an incline. That seems to limit it's usefulness to me.

So would these sensors give you an actual distance from the ground at two ends of your bot? If so I believe it could be programmed. There would have to be some tricky stuff done with when you're changing from flat to inclined. I'm no expert programmer, but I have some ideas.