PhoneGirl: A Cute Humanoid Robot That Uses Your Phone as Its Brain
_Stocko_ · x · 2026-10-24
Day 1 of "PhoneGirl": a cute humanoid robot that uses an ordinary phone as its brain, walking around and picking things up. The author is impressed by how astra can model everyday objects. Swapping a phone for dedicated compute is a novel low-cost approach to robot control.
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