Build Guide

On-Device vs Off-Device Compute for Robots

Every workload on a robot lives in one of two places: on-board, riding the battery and the chest fans, or off-board, on a wall-powered server one LAN hop away. The...

Robot SDKs, ROS 2, and Simulation Environments

A 2026 robot platform — humanoid or quadruped — ships with three software stories you have to deal with before any of your own code runs. The manufacturer SDK that...

Robot Networking: Wi-Fi, Tethers, 5G, and Why L...

A humanoid is a mobile node on a network that was almost certainly designed for laptops sitting still. That mismatch is the source of roughly 95% of the "the robot...

Buying a Robot: Lead Times, Customs, Support, W...

The marketing photos do not tell you that a Unitree G1 ordered direct from Hangzhou lands in Prague six to ten weeks later, with a customs broker invoice nobody warned...

Why Robots Need Dedicated Edge Compute

A humanoid that walks is a solved problem. A humanoid that understands what it is looking at, plans across a multi-step task, and remembers what happened five minutes ago is...

Autolabeling the Environment: VLM-Driven World ...

In 2023 a credible household-robot dataset required a thousand person-hours of human annotators drawing boxes around mugs and chairs. In 2026 the same dataset gets produced overnight by a stack...