Pictures are the new keypad.
At Mobot we look at the camera on your phone as a very powerful new data input method. Phones have always had a keypad for entering numbers, and now more recently for entering text and navigating menus, but the keypad remains a cumbersome and challenging way to enter data into your phone. In response to this constraint, voice recognition has been applied to dialing numbers and other commands, with some recent success. Mobot is pioneering the use of the mobile camera as a pointing device for the real world.

We get the picture.
Current consumer camera phones are well known to produce low quality images due to device and network constraints. Typical images are captured at 300,000 or 100,000 pixels of resolution and then aggressively compressed for transmission on the network – the net result is a loss of high frequency information and a low quality image. Other factors which impact image quality include device constraints such as lens and sensor quality, and environmental considerations such as lighting and position of the camera.

Mobot’s solution.
In response to these image quality challenges Mobot has developed a powerful, scalable, and flexible patent-pending solution which relies on image recovery, pattern recognition, and image matching capability ‘in the cloud.’ Cognitive science research has shown that the human brain uses blobs to recognize objects, that is, your brain does not use sharp edges to determine that a table is a table or a face is face. Mobot applies algorithms patterned after these methods to solve the problem of mobile visual search. Mobot has built a best in class solution through a combination of invention, innovation, and tech licensing. Mobot has strong technology partnerships with leading edge companies. For example, Imagen's technology and Evolution Robotics' ViPR technology are components of Mobot's visual search engine and help Mobot deliver state of the art pattern recognition.


Mobot is a service which supports all camera phones in the market using native picture messaging on the handset. Our system includes self-service interfaces for customer provisioning of visuals, mobile content, and access to usage data. A high capacity messaging and mobile application infrastructure has been deployed with support for MMS, SMS, and WAP, and web services interfaces are provided for third-party integration. Simply put, Mobot supports any camera phone, using any carrier and can trigger any response possible on a mobile phone.