PhoneBot: A 48 cm Bipedal Robot That Uses an Old Android Phone as Its Brain
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Loading videoUCLA researchers built PhoneBot, a 48 cm open humanoid platform with 13 low-cost actuators in a modular lower body and a commodity smartphone mounted in the torso as its sensing and compute unit. The phone supplies the IMU, camera, wireless link and onboard processing for stable locomotion, vision-based human following and standing back up after a fall, with hardware cost around 400 dollars excluding the phone.
Category: humanoid
Author: @techniahqrobot
Date: 2026-10-11T00:00:00
Duration: 88.405s
Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08737
