The paper summarizes our ideas and solutions in the subject of developing a rapid prototype-capable robot platform. Constructing a robotic platform for scientific researches means to find a robust electrical and mechanical system which is connected to a high computational device and it is easily programmable. Usually the first two features can be funded in industrial robots which unfortunately do not possess the last two. The presented solution refers to a mobile robot (Neobotix MP500) tuned with an extra computer and programmed with LabVIEW.