PhoneBot

PhoneBot is a newly tracked term from the FastToolHub radar.

Source excerpt: UCLA RoMeLa (Dennis Hong) PhoneBot: open-source 13-DoF bipedal humanoid (48 cm, 1.8 kg, ~$400 hardware) that uses an Android phone as torso/sensors/compute; walks, fall recovery, person following, telepresence; CAD/firmware/Android software released at phonebot.dev (arXiv 2610.08737, ~Oct 16). Re-surfaced as X News story 'UCLA's PhoneBot Turns Smartphones into Walking Robots' (x.com/i/trending/2113761953625891247, Oct 23 22:46Z).

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• Original URL: https://phonebot.dev/
• Radar score: 0.62 (collection ranking signal only, not a product review)
• First seen: 2026-10-24T08:32+08:00

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