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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.
- Build your own Robot Body
- Flash the Arduino Firmware
- Install the Android Apps
- Drive the robot via a Controller
- Train your own Driving Policy
- 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/intel-isl/OpenBot.git
- You can fork the OpenBot repository and then clone your local copy. This is recommended, especially if you want to contribute.
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.
Please read the contribution guidelines. If you are not sure where to start have a look at the open issues.
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},
}