UCLA's PhoneBot humanoid reuses old Android phones as a $400 robot brain
UCLA researchers build an open-source, 19-inch biped that uses a smartphone for compute and sensing, swapping in older handsets to cut cost.
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UCLA researchers build an open-source, 19-inch biped that uses a smartphone for compute and sensing, swapping in older handsets to cut cost.
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