I'm a beginner as well, so this is manly a question, but also a suggestion if it works.
Would it work to hook up a webcam (which already has a live image if you hook it up to the usb port on your computer) to a usb adapter and put the usb adapter on a breadboard along with a radio transmitter. Then put a radio receiver on your computer. Then attach the aforementioned breadboard (w/ webcam attached) to a robot, and voila!! you see what the robot sees from the comfort of our desk chair. Then go even further and make the robot an RC.
Who here thinks that this idea would work?