Federico Pascual · learning robotics in public
I'm learning robotics in public: the hardware, the code, and the AI that makes machines move, with detours into robotics startups and how you take one to market.
A live physics simulation of the SO-101 robot arm replaying recorded pick-and-place demonstrations. Press the Take Control button to drive the arm yourself with the keyboard or a gamepad.
I'm Federico. I'm teaching myself robotics, starting with a robot arm at my desk, and writing down what works, what breaks, and what it costs.
79 teleoperated episodes, two overnight training runs on an M3 MacBook, one glorious first success, and a hard lesson about task definition. The full story of teaching my SO-101 its first task, with real commands, real numbers, real failures.
6 min readAI
Why I picked Hugging Face's open-source arm, the vendor hunt, the parts that spent weeks crossing an ocean (and the camera that never shipped), the assembly, and the first time the follower arm mirrored my hand.
4 min readHardware
I studied business administration, and there's a robot arm on my desk that picks up socks on its own. How I got here (electronics, Arduino, a "self-driving" toy car, an SO-101) and what I'm going to write about.
3 min readHardware
An open-source browser tool for the SO-101. Replay recorded episodes in physics-simulated 3D, teleoperate a virtual arm, and plug it all into the LeRobot ecosystem. Early days; more soon.
A learning hub and evaluation cockpit for the imitation-learning policies I train on the SO-101. One place to log runs, compare policies across tasks, and keep the success rates honest.