MediaTek labs has demonstrated two small robots that can detect and track objects. The robot is powered using the LinkIt platform and can detect and track colored objects. The Robot can be trained to track and learn new colors and follow them. 

This is an example of how inexpensive LinkIt one can do real time image processing. The robot can estimate the objects' distance and calculate the direction it needs to go.

The robot has a serial camera attached to it which sends the processing data. It has a small OLED display which shows the distance and some basic information. It can even write "fud" and we wish it could complete the word and write Fudzilla on the small OLED screen.

The camera tracks 9KB of colors and it uses a few algorithms to detect and filter the color and tracks the object. To put things in perspective, Intel demonstrated dancing robots at the IDF CEO Keynote. To us it looks like a colour tracking and distancing robot is more useful.

This might sound minor but this robot didn’t use much time to get a programme to enable this feature. In the future someone might make a complex warehouse robot based on just this inexpensive solution. There are many potential applications and we are confident that we will continue to see more, smart and smarter robots able to complete more complex tasks. The best thing is that it doesn’t need months to be programmed; the task can be done in a day(s).