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Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by finolex1 on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:46AM (#24303736)
Robotics newbie here - does this work with the ROS software stack?
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Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by ragebol on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:18AM (#24303962)
There is not much source code to judge this by, the android dir of the source repo https://github.com/intel-isl/OpenBot is currently empty.

But you can run ROS nodes on an android phone and maybe talk to the Arduino through a serial-to-USB port on the phone?

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Re:Openbot: Turning Smartphones into Robots by re_riley on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:49AM (#24306292)
No
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