  Humanoid robotics is a promising field because the strong human preference to
interact with anthropomorphic interfaces. Despite this, humanoid robots are far
from reaching main stream adoption and the features available in such robots
seem to lag that of the latest smartphones. A fragmented robot ecosystem and
low incentives to developers do not help to foster the creation of Robot-Apps
either. In contrast, smartphones enjoy high adoption rates and a vibrant app
ecosystem (4M apps published). Given this, it seems logical to apply the mobile
SW and HW development model to humanoid robots. One way is to use a smartphone
to power the robot. Smartphones have been embedded in toys and drones before.
However, they have never been used as the main compute unit in a humanoid
embodiment. Here, we introduce a novel robot architecture based on smartphones
that demonstrates x3 cost reduction and that is compatible with iOS/Android.
