Robot learning
Budget a Robot Learning Setup Beyond the Arm and GPU
Build a robot learning budget around complete experiments: hardware, cameras, compute, storage, integration, operator time, and evidence-based purchase gates.
APPLICATION ROBOT LIBRARY
Robot learning
LeRobot projects, demonstrations, datasets and realistic hardware decisions.
Robot learning
Jetson Orin Nano 2 announcement: should your robot project wait?
An August 2026 launch snapshot of Jetson Orin Nano 2: announced hardware, unanswered pricing questions, and a practical evaluation plan for robot-side vision and learning.
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Evaluating a diffusion policy in LeRobot
Evaluate a LeRobot diffusion policy against a fair baseline, measuring task outcomes, sampling variation, action timing and checkpoint reproducibility.
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Audit Robot Demonstration Data Before Training a Policy
Audit robot demonstrations for observable actions, timing, task consistency, episode boundaries, and evaluation leakage before spending time on policy training.
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LeRobot ACT and action chunking explained
Understand ACT prediction chunks, action execution and temporal ensembling, then evaluate correction behaviour under a pinned LeRobot implementation.
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Plan a First LeRobot Project with Clear Success and Stop Criteria
Choose a tractable LeRobot task, freeze your setup, plan demonstrations and evaluation, and define evidence that earns the next stage of a learning project.
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Training a first LeRobot policy and evaluating it
Prepare a reproducible LeRobot training run, verify its configuration and checkpoints, and judge the resulting policy with independent task outcomes.
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Inspecting a LeRobot dataset before training
Use the LeRobot visualizer to inspect episode boundaries, camera streams and actions, and distinguish dataset defects from loading or display failures.
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Calibrating SO-101 leader and follower arms for LeRobot
Plan and verify SO-101 leader and follower calibration with LeRobot, preserving arm identity, joint meaning and evidence for consistent demonstrations.
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LeRobot camera placement for a first manipulation task
Choose and preserve camera views that reveal grasping, transfer and release, then verify the observations a LeRobot policy actually receives.
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Installing LeRobot: versions, environment and first checks
Install a documented LeRobot release, select the right dependencies, and verify imports, video decoding and configuration before connecting a robot.
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Jetson Orin Nano Super launch: what the $249 kit changed
What NVIDIA's December 17, 2024 announcement meant for a first robotics AI project: the existing-kit upgrade, 8 GB memory constraints, full setup costs and useful acceptance tests.