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RESEARCH
Embodiment, intelligence and interoperable physical systems.
This area separates frontier research and physical experiments from accepted architecture. Every track carries its maturity explicitly so exploratory work can be documented without being mistaken for a shipped standard.
FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH
Questions that may shape future OpenRGD contracts.
Physical AI
Perception, reasoning, simulation, control and safety when actions become physical.
Open →Physical AI Stack
A vendor-neutral map from data and simulation through models, embodiment, safety and hardware.
Open →Embodied AI
How morphology, sensing and action change the intelligence problem.
Open →Vision-Language-Action
How multimodal models become robot actions and what changes across embodiments.
Open →World Models / WAM
Observed, belief, predicted and desired state as a speculative planning layer above reflex control.
Open →RGD Physics
Physical and causal semantics as a candidate substrate for prediction and feasibility checking.
Open →Robot Chronograf
Clock domains, uncertainty and anchored temporal evidence for embodied systems.
Open →Ethics & DecisionTrace
Structured policy outcomes, evidence bindings and forensic ethical artifacts.
Open →PHYSICAL + SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS
Pressure-test ideas against real bodies and implementation constraints.
SO-101 Embodiment Lab
Leader/follower teleoperation, commissioning and causal-flow pressure testing on physical hardware.
Open →Motion Quality
Smoothness, trajectories and motion-layer experimentation outside the canonical standard.
Open →RGD Mesh
Identity, pairing, permissions and state/intent exchange for multi-robot systems.
Open →PUBLIC NOTES