Mobile Video Transmitting Robot

For more than a decade now robotics in education has gained a lot of attention from teachers, researchers, politicians, authorities and other stake holders. During the years a great number of methodologies, courses, projects, initiatives and competitions had been developed. The use of products from the market makes building robots possible at a very low-cost awakening the engineering nature of students and researchers. In this paper we present a low cost mobile robot which uses a normal android phone to guide itself. The low cost robot involves the use of one or more cameras to transmit visual data. Motors are from battery operated. The goal for this work is to build a large set of these robots, lend them to the engineering students.