The Riderless Bike is a fully autonomous children's bicycle, powered by a 1000w motor, steered via infrared tracking and viewable via a 360 degree camera. It participates in the Captain's Ride for children with rare diseases who can't physically attend the ride. It was built to a $25,000 budget over 4 months. Involving 4 Engineers across mechatronics, mechanical and electrical. The steering utilises a Pixy Infrared steering system built on a Raspberry Pi. The braking system is built on a dual redundant Arduino system and the 1000w motor runs of a 20ah LiPo battery. The bike had to go through safety and regulatory approvals before being given a special permit to ride on the road for the event.

A Pixy Infrared Camera connected to a Raspberry Pi is monitoring the road in front, looking for a custom built Infrared tracking beacon. The beacon has been placed on the last rider in the bike ride. Once it sees the beacon, it locks on and calculates the speed and distance, interpolating that information so that it can control the steering, braking and acceleration mechanisms. The 1000w in hub motor was custom built, as was the Lithium ion battery cells, which were built seamlessly in to the frame. The braking system was built on a dual redundant Arduino system, with an emergency shutoff connected to the flag on the rear of the bike (pull the flag to apply brakes and cut power to the motor) and was also completely operable via a remote control, up to 150m from the bicycle. It ran under complete supervision the entire time.