LAB MILESTONES
Build the body path before claiming intelligence.
Leader / follower teleoperation
Physical synchronization provides a repeatable human-driven reference trajectory.
Persistent calibration
Leader and follower calibrations are saved and reused across sessions.
Static hold
Commissioning verifies that the body can maintain controlled physical state.
Small-signal motion
Low-amplitude tests probe direction, scaling and stability before larger movement.
CAUSAL FLOW
The robot is useful because it exposes every boundary.
01Physical observation→
02Cognition proposal→
03ActionIntent→
04Somatic plan→
05Safety decision→
06DecisionTrace→
07Action result→
08Learning result
RESEARCH VALUE
Hardware turns hidden assumptions into measurable failures.
Unit conventions, calibration, latency, actuator limits and observation timing become concrete on a real arm. The point of the lab is not to make SO-101 canonical; it is to reveal which OpenRGD interfaces survive contact with embodiment.