PhoneBot: A Low-Cost Open Humanoid Robot Platform Reusing Smartphones
This paper presents PhoneBot, a low-cost, open-source humanoid robot platform that repurposes commodity smartphones as its primary sensing and computing unit.
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Key points
- The adoption of humanoid robots in education and research remains limited by high hardware costs, complex sensing systems, and substantial computational requirements.
- The robot combines a modular lower-body structure driven by 13 low-cost actuators with a torso-mounted smartphone that supports perception, control computation, and user interaction.
- We describe the mechanical design, software architecture, and real-time communication framework that support stable locomotion and capabilities including vision-based human following, conversational interaction, filming, and mobile telepresence.
- With fully open-source hardware and software designs, PhoneBot provides an affordable, reproducible platform for education, research, and rapid prototyping.
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- [1]PhoneBot: A Low-Cost Open Humanoid Robot Platform Reusing SmartphonesarXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 05:38 PM
This paper presents PhoneBot, a low-cost, open-source humanoid robot platform that repurposes commodity smartphones as its primary sensing and computing unit.
The adoption of humanoid robots in education and research remains limited by high hardware costs, complex sensing systems, and substantial computational requirements.
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