This is a description of a mobile robot using an Mac Mini and iSight camera for tele-operation. The purpose is to see what it is like to control to robot using the built-in visual and aural sensors before designing an agent to do the same task.
Make a robotic WebCam by yourself which can be viewed and controlled from the web. Hardware required for this is a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 Starter Kit, a mounting device for mounting WebCam, cable adapter, 9V battery backup, and WebCam32 software.
Pedro is a pc controlled mobile telepresence rig created with low-cost electronics and computer components. It was created over the course of several months on a shoestring budget.