After building the Dweebvision Telepresence Robot as cheaply as possible as a proof of concept, Glenn Currie, Vadim Konradi and Carlos Puchol devoted a great deal of effort to build a larger and more robust platform on which to mount sensors and actuators.

The RMP is round and 24" in diameter, from a top view. It can carry in excess of 300 lbs. of payload for more than 4 hours.

The restricted base diameter allows the RMP to fit through normal doors and it can make use of handicap ready buildings by driving up wheel chair ramps thus giving the robot considerable capability to travel outside the typical lab environment.

The RMP uses radio MODEMs for telemetry back to a base station computer, running the Linux system with X-Windows. The operator may drive the robot by using a joy stick on the base station and watching a live video picture appearing on an optional X-Window.

With the base completed, the next major project is to build a sonar ring for obstacle avoidance.