92 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. INTRODUCTION Service robotics is an emerging field that presents a great growth potential and a variety of application fields. The International Federation of Robotics classifies these robots in three main groups (IFR, 2007): 1) human assistance applications (personal, protection, entertainment,...); 2) equipment service applications (maintenance, repairs, cleaning, …); and 3) other autonomous applications (surveil- lance, data acquisition, transport,...). Being the assistance to people the main focus of this chapter, the application detailed next can be included in the first group. Chapter 6 ABSTRACT The interest in using mobile robots in education has increased over the last two decades, as it is a mul- tidisciplinary exercise in which the student needs to apply different subjects related to robotics, control engineering, software engineering, and electronics. In this chapter, the design and development of a mobile robot focused on the assistance to people with restricted mobility is detailed. This application of the service robot in the assistance feld has to be developed by the students of the last course of the Automatic Control and Electronic Engineering Career at the Engineering Faculty of Bilbao, resulting in a fully functional prototype. The aim of this design is to integrate the knowledge acquired through different subjects in order to design and develop a functional, low-cost assistance robot in the service robotics feld. Multidisciplinary Project-Based Learning of Robotics Itziar Cabanes University of the Basque Country, Spain Asier Zubizarreta University of the Basque Country, Spain Charles Pinto University of the Basque Country, Spain Fernando Artaza University of the Basque Country, Spain Marga Marcos University of the Basque Country, Spain Oscar Altuzarra University of the Basque Country, Spain DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0291-5.ch006