Turning Smartphones into Robots

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OpenBot leverages smartphones as brains for low-cost robots. We have designed a small electric vehicle that costs about $50 and serves as a robot body. Our software stack for Android smartphones supports advanced robotics workloads such as person following and real-time autonomous navigation.

Get started with OpenBot

• Read the Disclaimer
• Build your own Robot Body
• Flash the Arduino Firmware
• Install the Android Apps
• Drive the robot via a Controller
• Program your robot in the Playground
• Train your own Driving Policy

Get the source code

• You can download the repo as a zip file and extract it into a folder of your choice.
• You can clone the OpenBot repository from GitHub with the following command:

  git clone https://github.com/ob-f/OpenBot.git

• You can fork the OpenBot repository and then clone your local copy. This is recommended, especially if you want to contribute.

Videos

Cool projects using OpenBot

There are a lot of cool projects using OpenBot already. Below is a small selection. Click on the images to be redirected to the respective projects.

Contact

• Join our Slack channel to connect with the OpenBot community.
• Contact us via Email

Contribute

Please read the contribution guidelines. If you are not sure where to start have a look at the open issues.

Citation

Please cite our paper if you use OpenBot.

@inproceedings{mueller2021openbot,
    title     = {OpenBot: Turning Smartphones into Robots},
    author    = {M{\"u}ller, Matthias and Koltun, Vladlen},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    year = {2021},
}