PhoneBot uses an old $50 Android smartphone brain with its cameras as eyes — tech Frankenstein is an open source humanoid robot platform for makers

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PhoneBot uses cheap Android smartphones for vision, sensing, and walking control

UCLA researchers built a humanoid robot with approximately $400 in hardware

Four Android phones handled PhoneBot’s core sensing and computing tasks

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have developed PhoneBot, a compact humanoid robot that reuses cheap smartphones for sensing and computing.

The open source platform costs approximately $400 for its robotic hardware, excluding the phone, making it considerably cheaper than several existing…