Guides

These are first-person accounts of building with physical AI — the failures, the fixes, and what we learned. Each guide links back to the glossary concepts it applies.

They’re companion pieces to the reference entries in Concepts. Read the concept for theory; read the guide for how it plays out in practice.

Teaching a Robot to Pick Up a Candy Bar 56 episodes, 3 training runs, one candy bar. What we learned training an SO-101 arm with ACT.

3 Numbers That Tell You How to Optimize Before you try quantization: compute R1, R2, R3 first. The latency floor model from 30 hours of failed optimization.