{"id":50987,"date":"2026-03-16T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=50987"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:31:28","slug":"openclaw-%e4%bb%8e%e5%85%a5%e9%97%a8%e5%88%b0%e7%b2%be%e9%80%9a%e6%8c%87%e5%8d%97%ef%bc%9aopenclaw-%e7%90%86%e8%ae%ba%e7%9f%a5%e8%af%86%ef%bc%8copenclaw-%e6%98%af%e4%bb%80%e4%b9%88%ef%bc%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/50987.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenClaw from the Introduction to the Advanced Guide: OpenClaw Theory, OpenClaw What"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Part I:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openclaw\" title=\"[See articles with [OpenClaw] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenClaw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%90%86%e8%ae%ba%e7%9f%a5%e8%af%86\" title=\"[Sees articles with [theory knowledge] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >theoretical knowledge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, something you don't want to see can skip directly to the other parts\u3002<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 1: What is OpenClaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OpenClaw<\/strong>An open-source personal AI Agent (intellectual) framework, published by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger at the end of 2025 and in January 2026, in the technical community. It marks a shift in the paradigm from \"dialogue tools\" to \"self-implementers\". It's not an App, it's an \"AI housekeeper living in a computer.\"\u3002<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>address: https:\/\/openclaw.ai<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"netease1773643795416\" contenteditable=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/dingyue.ws.126.net\/2026\/0316\/e7ec8a87j00tbzcb70093d000mi00fkp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Founder<\/strong>Founder of OpenClaw\u00a0<strong>Peter Steinberger<\/strong>\u00a0It is a well-known continuous entrepreneur in Austria:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Career experience: PSPDFKit was created to develop the world ' s leading iOS PDF processing framework, with clients such as Apple, Adobe, etc<\/li>\n<li>Retirement and Return: Retirees after sale of SPPDFKit shares for approximately $119 million in 2021 and after four years of re-entry into the technical field because of \u201ccreative desire\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ideas of development: OpenClaw was his weekend project at the end of 2025, originally designed to create a tool for self-autonomy in day-to-day affairs, but it was not expected that it would soon explode after GitHub's release<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Steinberger ' s technical background (Deep Crop Bottom System Development) explains OpenClaw ' s focus on local priority and system-level operational capabilities in architecture design\u3002<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Name Change History<\/strong>: Clawbot\u2192Moltbot\u2192OpenClaw)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Phase 1: Clawd \/ Clawdbot (26 January 2025)<\/p>\n<p>Claw: The claws of lobster, salute the image of the cartoon lobster in the loading interface<\/p>\n<p>Clawd: Harmonise with Claude, suggesting that the project is built on Claude Model<\/p>\n<p>GitHub within 24 hours of release, 9000 Star, breaking 60,000 Star:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"netease1773643832507\" contenteditable=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/dingyue.ws.126.net\/2026\/0316\/3d0240b6j00tbzcc8004od000mm00gsp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phase 2: Moltbot (27 January - 29 January 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Reason for the change of name: The Anthropic legal team issued a friendly letter of advice on January 27, noting that the Clawd\/Clawdbot is too similar to Claude ' s trademark and risks to abuse\u3002<\/p>\n<p>\"Data robbery\":<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Steinberger decided to change his name at the discord meeting at 5 a.m<\/li>\n<li>twitter account @clawdbot was seized by an encrypted currency-calling robot in 10 seconds and immediately released a false $CLAWD token wallet address<\/li>\n<li>Steinberger wrongly renamed the personal GitHub account instead of the organizational account, resulting in the original user name @steipete being taken by robots<\/li>\n<li>The market value of the counterfeit currency went up to $16 million and then collapsed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>New name: Moltbot, taken from Molt, symbolizing the growth of lobster husks, the evolution and transformation of the project<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"netease1773643846137\" contenteditable=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/dingyue.ws.126.net\/2026\/0316\/6003f1c1j00tbzccm005xd000l500jop.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phase III: OpenClaw (30 January 2026 to date)<\/p>\n<p>Final designation: The team learned the first two lessons and completed it before changing its name:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Global trademark retrieval (ensure no conflict)<\/li>\n<li>Domain name purchase and social account protection<\/li>\n<li>Community vote for confirmation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Name meaning:<\/p>\n<p>Open: Emphasizing open, open and transparent ideas<\/p>\n<p>Claw: Preservation of lobster claw elements, tribute to the origin of the project, symbol of \u201ccapture\u201d and ability to handle digital tasks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why is it on fire<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenClaw\u2019s outbreak in January 2026 was no accident:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Time is right: AI is at the threshold of the transition from \"dialogue\" to \"Agent\" and the market wants to be really \"work\" AI<\/li>\n<li>Hardware connection: the project promoted the hot market for Mac Mini (especially M4 version) because the user needed a 24-hour low-utility unit as host<\/li>\n<li>Andrej Karpathy (former Tesla AI Director, Founding Member of OpenAI) praised this as \"the closest scene to science fiction\"<\/li>\n<li>Social experiment: The OpenClaw-based Moltbook (AI Agent social network, only AI can post, only humans can see) triggers a whole web-based discussion<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part I: OpenClaw Theory Part, if you don't want to see it, you can skip it directly to the other parts. Chapter 1: What is OpenClaw? OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI Agent (intellectual body) framework, published by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger at the end of 2025, and in January 2026, in the technological circle. It marks a shift in the paradigm from \"dialogue tools\" to \"self-implementers\". It's not an App, it's an \"AI housekeeper living in a computer.\" Address: https:\/\/open<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[8229,8270,8381],"collection":[8384],"class_list":{"0":"post-50987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-baike","7":"tag-openclaw","9":"tag-8381","10":"collection-openclaw"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50987"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=50987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}