Semaloop vs Mobot
Mobot is a fleet of mechanical robots that physically tap real phones, supervised by humans. Semaloop runs plain-English 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.