ob-f/OpenBot

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3442 stars · 661 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

OpenBot is an open-source project that turns Android smartphones into the brains of low-cost robots, paired with a ~$50 electric vehicle body and Arduino firmware. Its software stack supports advanced robotics workloads such as person following and real-time autonomous navigation.

Use cases

• build a low-cost robot using a smartphone as its brain
• implement person following on a mobile robot
• run real-time autonomous navigation experiments
• train and deploy driving policies for a wheeled robot
• use robotics for education and research on a budget
• program a robot via Arduino firmware and Android apps

When to choose

• you want an affordable, open robotics platform for education or research
• you want to leverage smartphone sensors and compute for robot perception and control
• you want to experiment with deep-learning-based robot policies
• you want a hackable hardware-plus-software stack with Arduino and Android components

When to avoid

• you need industrial-grade or safety-certified robotics hardware
• you require non-Android control hardware or iOS support
• you need manipulator arms or drones rather than a wheeled vehicle

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machine-learning computer-vision robotics deep-learning robotics education machine-learning computer-vision autonomous-vehicles iot cross-platform smartphone-robot low-cost-robotics person-following autonomous-navigation arduino-firmware driving-policy stem-education android

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