  Active matter systems use their internal or ambient source of energy and
dissipate them at the scale of individual constituent particles to generate
motion. Direct measurement of the energy influx for individual particles has
not been achieved in the experiments. Here we present "Squigglebot" - a battery
powered spherical rolling robot based on open source hardware as an artificial
active matter system whose energy consumption as well as the energy dissipation
into different modes of motion both can be measured experimentally. This can
serve as a prototype system to study a number of interesting problems in
non-equilibrium statistical physics, where details of the energetics are
required.
