Keero Bot Modular AI Hardware Platform
Keero Bot is a modular embedded platform for AI-driven physical interaction, built around an ESP32-S3 core and designed to combine sensing, audio, haptics, display, and expansion modules in one coherent system.
This documentation is intentionally public and high level. It explains the system architecture, visible hardware capabilities, modular product direction, prototyping posture, and firmware roadmap while keeping production-critical hardware details private.
Why Keero Bot
AI-Ready Core
Built around ESP32-S3 to support connected, sensor-rich embedded experiences with a practical path toward audio, vision, and interaction workloads.
Modular Hardware
The system is designed as a reusable mainboard plus swappable modules such as dock and tracks, making it suitable for iterative product development.
Multi-Modal Interaction
Keero Bot combines camera, audio, haptics, motion sensing, and display support so interaction logic can move beyond a simple dev-board workflow.
Prototype-Friendly
The board was designed with real PCB manufacturing and early assembly workflows in mind, making it suitable for serious prototyping and sponsor evaluation.
Physical AI Experiments
The platform is aimed at embodied AI ideas where compute meets movement, sensing, feedback, and real-world environmental input.
Open Firmware Direction
Firmware is the openly evolving software layer of the platform, while hardware documentation stays intentionally higher level to protect production know-how.
Why It Works For Sponsors
Clear Platform Story
Keero Bot presents a coherent embedded platform narrative with a mainboard, modules, firmware direction, and visible product intent rather than an isolated PCB experiment.
Iteration-Oriented
The system is positioned for repeated prototyping and refinement, which aligns well with fabrication partners focused on early hardware programs.
Public But Controlled
The docs provide enough visibility for technical evaluation while withholding production-critical release assets from unrestricted public access.
What PCBWay Can Evaluate Here
Real Mainboard Scope
The site shows a real integrated board with compute, power, camera, display, audio, haptics, sensors, and expansion responsibilities already defined in one compact platform.
Modular Product Direction
The project is structured around a reusable mainboard plus dock, tracks, and future accessories, which makes repeated prototype runs and product iteration more meaningful.
Practical Prototyping Intent
Keero Bot is documented as something meant to be assembled, tested, and iterated in the real world rather than remaining a concept-only electronics exercise.
Current Hardware Snapshot
Current Keero render assets mirrored from the hardware repository for deployment.
Current Platform Snapshot
Compute Core
ESP32-S3 acts as the platform brain and anchors the firmware architecture for interaction, connectivity, and module control.
Interaction Stack
The public hardware scope already includes camera, microphone, speaker, display, motion sensing, and haptic feedback, which gives the platform a strong multi-modal identity.
Portable + Docked Use
The system is designed for battery-based operation while also supporting clean development access and future docking workflows.
Expansion Path
Module interfaces and pogo-based expansion make it possible to reuse one core board across different demos, accessory concepts, and future product directions.
What Is Public
Architecture
Public docs describe the system through compute, power, interaction, module expansion, and firmware responsibilities rather than low-level electrical implementation.
Modular Design
The docs explain how the mainboard, dock, tracks, and module interfaces fit together so developers and sponsors can understand the platform vision quickly.
Use Cases
Keero Bot is positioned for embodied AI experiments, interactive robotics, docking concepts, and sensor-rich hardware prototyping.
Status and Roadmap
Public progress tracking covers what is already integrated, what is in active prototyping, and what is planned for future firmware and module releases.
Documentation Map
Overview
Start with the introduction and architecture pages to understand the platform story, subsystem boundaries, and intended audience quickly.
Hardware
Hardware pages describe the mainboard role, power and interconnect philosophy, module strategy, manufacturing posture, and public-facing interface map.
Firmware
Firmware pages show that the software side is actively progressing and that the hardware is intended to become a coherent platform rather than a static board.
Board Viewer
The interactive board viewer gives sponsors and collaborators a visual reference of the current hardware without exposing the project as a public export tool.
Access Policy
Production Files Are Private
Gerbers, pick-and-place outputs, editable design sources, and full manufacturing BOMs are not publicly distributed in this documentation build.
Open but Protected
Keero Bot is developed in an open-hardware spirit, but the public release is not intended to enable unrestricted commercial cloning of the official hardware.
Sponsor-Friendly Review
Additional production detail can be shared selectively for prototyping, sponsorship, or manufacturing discussions when there is a legitimate project need.