Semaloop vs Mobot
Mobot is a fleet of mechanical robots that physically tap real phones, supervised by humans. Semaloop runs natural language tests on real iPhones and Android emulators against every build you ship.
What Mobot is
Mobot builds and operates robots that physically interact with a rack of over 200 real devices, using computer vision to tap, swipe and drag. Humans supervise the fleet and a customer success manager verifies results. It targets the cases conventional automation struggles with: biometrics, multi-device messaging, deep links.
Where they differ
| Semaloop | Mobot | |
|---|---|---|
| How the device is driven | An agent, in software, driving the device | A mechanical arm physically touching the screen |
| Model | Software your team runs | A supervised service with an assigned manager |
| Cadence | Every build, automatically | Scheduled cycles the fleet works through |
| Physical interactions | Not covered — no fingerprint, no second handset | The core strength: biometrics, multi-device |
| Turnaround on a new flow | Write a sentence | Coordinate with the vendor |
Choose Mobot if
- You need genuinely physical interactions covered — fingerprint and face unlock, a second handset receiving a message, hardware buttons.
- You want a human verifying every result before it reaches you.
- Device breadth across a large matrix of physical handsets is the point.
Choose Semaloop if
- You want every build tested, not a cycle you schedule and wait on.
- You want to add a flow yourself this afternoon without involving a vendor.
- Your failing flows are software behaviour rather than physical hardware interaction.