or just water ... and try for conductivity? you could use any cloth as
"land" ...

or cloth change color while wet, and your robots sens this change? this will
give you a visual trace ... could be nice for an over cam to register
movements and  paths.
this could be the cheaper form of feromones :)

andres

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