[sails]

Love this, I’m playing around with the cheapo esp32+servos version of this, super fun.

Something I’m working on is a hardware CLI for agents to run experiments, with a “CICD” pipeline that validates everything and means I can delegate more of the experiments to the agents. I wonder if you have any thoughts on this?

The idea is to allow the coding agent to run the full loop of experiments and validations, with vision, audio, button pressing, speaking etc to interact in place of the human

[mplappert]

Very cool!

Have you seen the recent nvidia thing? They do this at scale for robotics manipulation: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/enpire/

[sails]

Ah no I hadn't seen that, very interesting.

I'm finding a gap just before running those experiments.

The process of updating firmware, doing basic smoke tests on each device and validating it is live, and can function correctly.

Basically the pre-deployment green light that you get on github, but for hardware.

Have you seen or thought about that at all?

[mplappert]

This seems indeed useful. I haven't seen this for robotics but I'm sure people need this for larger deployments (either for a distributed fleet or for an "arm farm"-like setup where there's many robots in one location for data collection / eval). Interesting idea!

[sails]

Great thanks for giving it some thought, I’ll share a video as it’s all quite an early concept but saving me a lot of time on the bench!