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The aim of development of a modular vehicle for research and educational purposes was that, within the framework of university education, students would get to know several different types of microcontroller development platforms, seeing the specifics of programming and control one by one. The modular vehicle was designed to allow for easy interchangeability of different development cards and to maintain the robot arm and the movement of the vehicle. In addition, the different types of sensors that can be used during the vehicle’s travel can be changed and combined. During the production of a prototype, the advantages of the 3D printing technique was kept in mind, and it was paid attention to the change in the centre of gravity due to the replacement of the elements, furthermore easier options of installation of the elements were focused on. The modular nature enables both the development of the quality of IT programming students and the complex education of mechatronic engineers. In addition to the acquisition of fundamental programming and control competencies, the robot offers students the opportunity to gain insight into the utilisation of behaviour-based control through the application of fuzzy logic and the FIVE fuzzy interpolation method. The FIVE-based behavioural description method can be employed to equip the robot with expert knowledge, enabling the replication of sophisticated behaviours such as those observed in canines.