Hi,
I'm a complete newbie at robotics but I'm very interested in it. As a CS-student I'm going to do a project whith robots using A.I. techniques. That's why I'd like to buy a programmable robot. Now I need to figure out wich one.
The problems the robot will need to solve are mazes, preferably without bumping into the obstacles. At first the situations will be fairly simple but they will gradually be made more difficult.
I prefer to program in a high level language such as C/C++ or java. But I'll be happy enough if I don't have to use goto's. I was thinking about de lego mindstorms set, but I've read on some sites it is rather limited. I've seen so many models on the web I don't know wich one to choose. I want to spend no more than 600$ on it, and preferably less. Which robots are suitable and what would you recommend me?
Thanks in advance