Fast and simplified image processing and analysis methods can be successfully implemented for the robot control algorithms. Statistical methods seem to be very useful for such an approach, mainly because a significant reduction of analysed data is possible. In the paper the use of the fast image analysis based on the Monte Carlo area estimation for the simplified binary representation of the image is analysed and proposed for the mobile robot control. A possible implementation of the proposed method can applied in the line tracking robots and such application has been treated as the basic one for the testing purposes.