Some clever California hackers, Tim Heath and Ryan Hickman, are building bots that harness Android for their robo-brainpower.
Their first creation, the TruckBot, uses a HTC G1 as a brain and has a chassis that they made for $30 in parts. It's not too advanced yet—it can use the phone's compass to head in a particular direction—but they're working on incorporating the bot more fully with the phone and the Android software.
Some ideas they're looking to build in soon are facial and voice recognition and location awareness.
If you're interested in putting together a Cellbot of your own the team's development blog has some more information.
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