Mobile Tunnel: Giving AI agents control of Android to drive drones and IoT (sealgate.ai)

Mobile Tunnel, a new open-source Android application developed by Ilia Manolov and Eito Miyamura, enables AI agents to control Android devices for tasks like piloting drones and interacting with IoT devices. In a recent experiment, the team successfully connected GPT-5.6 Sol to a £100 DJI Neo drone, instructing it to autonomously find and land on a table using minimal tuning. The significant breakthrough lies in the establishment of a secure connection through the SealGate Gateway, allowing the AI agent to manipulate the device's interface, essentially utilizing existing applications without needing specialized APIs. This development paves the way for enhancing AI autonomy in hardware interaction, demonstrating that AI can perform complex tasks in real-time by observing and interacting through an Android device. The experiment revealed both the potential and limitations of AI models in physical environments, highlighting that while GPT-5.6 Sol reliably completed tasks, many other models struggled with spatial consistency and safety concerns. The Mobile Tunnel application lays the foundation for broader applications, indicating that AI agents could potentially control a wide array of devices with existing mobile interfaces, thus broadening the scope of AI in robotics and IoT.