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Embedded systems are designed to do some specific tasks often with real-time computing constraints. The program instructions written for embedded systems are referred to as firmware, and are stored in read-only memory or Flash memory chips. The hardware and software components are synchronized using these instructions. This paper describes how we implemented and examined the development of an embedded system, namely Johnny 5. It is a robot manufactured by Lynxmotion. Powerful Bot Board/SSC-32/BA28 and PS2 Controller are attached to Johnny 5 to simulate the problem The application created for the robot was to make it hold a camera in its hands avoiding obstacles and then return back to initial point following the same path and hence record a video of the path it traveled. While working on this project, our team experienced certain challenges during implementation phase. Our project was of a much higher complexity than the earlier projects like Mini-hexapod, Mini Rover in terms of movements and functionality.