Mapping circuit board/software

Hi everyone im very new to all this but is there a system/circuit that you can do mapping with. E.g like a robot lawn mower but instead of it going randon routes that it will take a certain route that has been programmed?? Any help would be great.

Hey!

There are multiple ways to do this actually but none that are cheap and premade.
You could map a floor of your home using a Lidar setup hooked on a rover with encoders on it’s wheels to know precisely how much it moved.
Somebody recently made a prototype on our community:


Another, simpler way of doing that would be to make “roads” on the ground with black tape and make the robot follow it like so:

I hope this helps!