Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk
Summary
Matthias Plappert describes building a desk-adjacent robotics research setup under a modest budget, combining an industrial-grade robot arm, dual cameras, and a Python-based software stack. The project emphasizes end-to-end control, data logging, and learning-based policies, with a focus on research logs over open-source code. It highlights architecture, safety, data capture, and planned policy inference on a separate GPU system.