# WiFi Controlled Mobile Robot ## Introduction ![](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/assets/assets/000/012/321/medium800/microcontrollers_robot_annoted.jpg?1384875475) The CC3000 WiFi chip has a wide range of applications, and thanks to breakout boards like the Adafruit CC3000 breakout board, it is very easy to interface this chip with open-source platforms like Arduino. In this guide, we will focus on one of these applications: robotics. We are going to see how to plug the CC3000 WiFi breakout board on a mobile robot to control it remotely from your computer, or from your smartphone or tablet. This particular type of control uses a seperate server computer that the robot contacts to get "instructions", rather than hosting the server locally. If you'd like to check out an example of how to run a lightweight server on the CC3000+Arduino itself check out the [WiFi candy bowl project](http://learn.adafruit.com/wifi-candy-bowl)! 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