Robot team goes from first data collection to live factory demo in under 24 hours
DominiqueCAPaul · x · 2026-11-07
The team visited a likely paid-pilot customer and went from first data collection to a live demo in under 24 hours, with 13 attendees watching robots pass cables and press buttons.
- Cable insertion, expected to be hard due to occlusion, needed only 200 demonstrations.
- Pain points: setup is still too slow (goal: roll out of a car and plug in); half the demos on one task had corrupted follower-arm states, fixed post-hoc with a linear model and now flagged during collection; internet speed was the bottleneck again (mobile hotspot + SSD transfers).
- Alternating data collection and retraining improves the model fastest, but each round takes hours even on 8x H100; Starlink doesn't work well indoors.
- Factory details are under NDA; photos show the team catching up on sleep on the ride back.
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