We’ve all got an old smartphone lying around somewhere, collecting dust in a drawer. Maybe you’ve kept it as a backup, or perhaps you haven’t gotten around to selling it. But what if that forgotten ...

Open-source humanoid robot PhoneBot from UCLA uses a commodity Android phone priced at $50 to $80 to replace five robot subsystems, cutting hardware cost to roughly $400 -- nine to thirty-five times ...

Researchers have developed an inexpensive humanoid robot based on an Android smartphone. Control and sensor usage are handled by a smartphone.

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HONOR is crashing MWC 2026 with its first humanoid robot, moving beyond phones into physical AI hardware. The matte-black robot features a head-mounted camera and a glowing chest strip, suggesting a ...

Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.

On August 12, Honor, a Chinese manufacturer spun out of Huawei in 2020, launched the Robot Phone in China for 9,999 yuan (about $1,480). It is an Android flagship whose main camera sits on a motorized ...