Burner Phone turns Androids into AI agents

This is exactly the kind of weird, practical agent project that feels more useful than another chatbot wrapper: it uses old Android hardware as a real-world interface for embodied AI.

• –The v2 update pushes past simple phone automation into always-on presence, with the phone activating only when gaze and speech line up
• –Support for physical phones, wireless ADB devices, and emulators makes it more like an agent platform than a one-off hackathon demo
• –Hermes hooks plus separate skills for attention, TTS, and device control show a modular design that other agent builders could actually reuse
• –Using vision models for screen understanding and app navigation hints at a lightweight path to embodied agents without custom robotics hardware