This is the kind of overall direction which I'm thinking of for the GROK2 project, or for quite low cost robotics in general. The Beagleboard has enough processing power to do interesting things, and can run an ordinary operating system such as Ubuntu. If you package this together with a Minoru webcam, wireless USB adaptor and Phidgets stepper controller and 8/8/8 then it would be possible to produce quite a sophisticated robot for maybe in the region of $500.
The low power consumption makes these boards attractive compared to other small PC motherboards, since on a mobile robot the main power consumer is the computer or laptop.
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