PicoClaw 🦀 — Go based alternative to OpenClaw / ZeroClaw / Nanobot / AgentZero
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PicoClaw: Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go
$10 Hardware · 10MB RAM · 1s Boot · 皮皮虾，我们走！
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PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight personal AI Assistant inspired by nanobot, refactored from the ground up in Go through a self-bootstrapping process, where the AI agent itself drove the entire architectural migration and code optimization.
️ Runs on $10 hardware with <10MB RAM: That's 99% less memory than OpenClaw and 98% cheaper than a Mac mini!
Caution
SECURITY & OFFICIAL CHANNELS / 安全声明- NO CRYPTO: PicoClaw has NO official token/coin. All claims on
pump.funor other trading platforms are SCAMS. - OFFICIAL DOMAIN: The ONLY official website is picoclaw.io, and company website is sipeed.com
- Warning: Many
.ai/.org/.com/.net/...domains are registered by third parties. - Warning: picoclaw is in early development now and may have unresolved network security issues. Do not deploy to production environments before the v1.0 release.
- Note: picoclaw has recently merged a lot of PRs, which may result in a larger memory footprint (10–20MB) in the latest versions. We plan to prioritize resource optimization as soon as the current feature set reaches a stable state.
News2026-02-16
PicoClaw hit 12K stars in one week! Thank you all for your support! PicoClaw is growing faster than we ever imagined. Given the high volume of PRs, we urgently need community maintainers. Our volunteer roles and roadmap are officially posted here —we can’t wait to have you on board!2026-02-13
PicoClaw hit 5000 stars in 4days! Thank you for the community! There are so many PRs & issues coming in (during Chinese New Year holidays), we are finalizing the Project Roadmap and setting up the Developer Group to accelerate PicoClaw's development.
Call to Action: Please submit your feature requests in GitHub Discussions. We will review and prioritize them during our upcoming weekly meeting.2026-02-09
PicoClaw Launched! Built in 1 day to bring AI Agents to $10 hardware with <10MB RAM. PicoClaw，Let's Go！
Features🪶 Ultra-Lightweight: <10MB Memory footprint — 99% smaller than Clawdbot - core functionality.
Minimal Cost: Efficient enough to run on $10 Hardware — 98% cheaper than a Mac mini.️ Lightning Fast: 400X Faster startup time, boot in 1 second even in 0.6GHz single core.
True Portability: Single self-contained binary across RISC-V, ARM, and x86, One-click to Go!
AI-Bootstrapped: Autonomous Go-native implementation — 95% Agent-generated core with human-in-the-loop refinement.OpenClaw NanoBot PicoClaw Language TypeScript Python Go RAM \>1GB \>100MB < 10MB Startup (0.8GHz core) \>500s \>30s <1s Cost Mac Mini 599$ Most Linux SBC ~50$ Any Linux Board As low as 10$ 
- NO CRYPTO: PicoClaw has NO official token/coin. All claims on
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Packaged : https://git.cloudron.io/timconsidine/cloudron-picoclaw
Docker image : tcmbp132021/cloudron-picoclaw:latest
There is a 'picoclaw onboard' command but it's easier IMO to edit the config file directly.
EDIT : seems the onboard command is mostly to create a folder structure. real config is best done in config.json
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Fun experiment but I don't see it provides much use case.
Does the world really need another AI chat entry point ?
Maybe I am missing the point.
Struggling to see how to extend telegram functionality. -
@timconsidine very interesting question! I just came to the same conclusion. It looks like all those autonomous AI agents seems to be just another chat interface. Glad to not be alone with that conclusion.
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I mainly added it for completeness to other alternatives.
It is being used as an employee in a Zero-Human Company and is managed by other AIs who already modified the code.
You can read more at https://readmultiplex.com
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@timconsidine very interesting question! I just came to the same conclusion. It looks like all those autonomous AI agents seems to be just another chat interface. Glad to not be alone with that conclusion.
@Kubernetes I thought a little bit more and I think maybe I missed the crucial point.
Its lightweight footprint means it can run on a Pi, or a Phone, or maybe a baby (low-spec) Cloudron.
It's kinda irrelevant on my high-spec Cloudron, but after Hetzner etc force us onto more modest affordable devices, maybe we will be very glad of it !
Now, where are those Pi devices which I never did anything with except boot them up ...
