Seeed's open-source rover uses a phone as the robot brain: it dances, waves, parks

chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-08-19

Seeed Studio showed off an Honor RobotPhone mounted on its XIAO Robot Kit, using the phone as the rover's AI brain. At launch it danced, waved, drove and parked on stage. The open-source design invites makers to reproduce and remix it — the epitome of powering a robot with your phone.

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