Shelly RPC, LIFX LAN, Hue Bridge, Yeelight LAN, Zigbee2MQTT, ONVIF, WLED, and Matter devices become useful before any heroic jailbreak.
v0.9 48 device classes. One operating layer.
Turn phones
into open robots.
openrobot turns retired hardware into a fleet you own. Phones, tablets, speakers, laptops, routers, even DSLRs — all running local: voice, sensors, cron loops, agent loops. AI-assisted liberation handles the rooting and flashing. No SaaS leash.
Every consumer device shipped this century has compute, sensors, network, and identity. Most spent their useful life on a vendor's leash. When the leash breaks, they do not have to die. openrobot is the layer that liberates them and reorganizes them into a fleet you own.
01 / Fleet
Six devices. One fleet. All running on stuff someone threw out.
A house full of discarded consumer electronics becomes a local robot system: brains plan, satellites listen, hubs route, surfaces show state, and actuators do work.
03 / AI-assisted liberation
The installer should know the weird part for you.
Rooting, flashing, firmware utilities, and vendor-specific rituals should not require folklore. openrobot turns the atlas into an interactive procedure.
Connect
Plug the device into your laptop or boot it into download mode. openrobot detects USB descriptors, model fingerprints, and Bluetooth identity.
Identify
openrobot matches your device against the salvage atlas, names what it can become, and pulls the right liberation procedure.
Liberate
fastboot flashes, partition writes, ROM installs, and agent narration stay in one guided flow. You watch, confirm, and claim the device.
Today: AI-guided liberation is scoped to SUPPORTED v0.1 devices. The full every-device vision lands with v1.0. We will not oversell what works.
04 / Capability tiers
What your hardware can do once liberated.
Capability tiers make the salvage story honest. A weak device can still be a useful satellite; a stronger one can become the room brain.
Snapdragon 855+, Pixel Tablet, ThinkPad, NUC. Runs local LLMs, voice, scheduler, LAN UI, and Home Assistant duty.
Snapdragon 660-845 and older tablets. Runs wake/STT/TTS, schedules, dashboards, and small local models.
Older phones, Pi 3, cameras, wall panels. Cron, sensors, voice satellite, dashboards, MQTT, and local bridges.
Very old devices. Single-purpose display, button, sensor relay, or parts donor. Still useful when the role is honest.
05 / Upstream
We lift primitives, name them, and ship.
openrobot stands on a decade of right-to-repair, custom-firmware, and local-first work by these projects.