Robotics job seeker recaps two years of full-stack work: sim2real, VLA, teleop, low-cost hardware
k7agar · x · 2026-10-11
A robotics engineer (@k7agar) published a blog recapping two years of hands-on projects:
- Sim2real RL
- VLA training and deployment
- VR teleoperation
- Human-in-the-loop recovery
- Online RL
- Building low-cost robot hardware for data collection
The blog covers what worked, lessons learned, and directions worth pursuing. The author is seeking an internship starting in January, positioned as a high-agency engineer covering the entire robotics stack.
Related event: Robotics Developer Shares Two-Year Project Retrospective(2 posts)→
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