OpenBot (ob-f) · Smartphone Robotics

OpenBot v0.9

An open-source platform that turns an Android or iOS phone into the brain of a robot car whose body costs about $50, with person following, point-goal navigation and trainable driving policies running on the phone, plus firmware, a Blockly playground and web and Flutter controllers. v0.9.0 on 7 October is the first release since March 2025, adding a Flutter controller settings drawer with tilt or on-screen driving and app languages including Hindi, and fixing ESP32 firmware, BLE setup, WebRTC streaming and navigation crashes; Bluetooth-gamepad and no-phone-mode firmware followed on 18 and 19 October. Started at Intel Labs, ICRA 2021 paper. MIT, 3,547 stars.