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Built to Be Hacked: Why Research Robots Have to Stay Open
A research robot has to support experiments its designers haven’t thought of yet. Matt Trossen explains why we build our hardware to be changed.
Nupur Patra
3 days ago


How a University Lab Teaches a Robot Arm Pick and Place with Physical AI and the Trossen Solo AI Kit
A university research lab is using the Trossen Solo AI kit to teach a robot arm to pick up any manufacturing part, in any orientation, and place it in the right bin from a simple prompt. Ali Beydoun, a researcher focused on physical AI, documented the full journey in a detailed post: Bringing a Robot Arm to Life with Trossen Robotics AI. He covers how he chose an arm, set it up, collected training data and fine-tuned a vision-language-action model. He also notes that his post
Nupur Patra
Oct 15


Multimodal Robot Data: Designing Synchronized Datasets for Physical AI
Design multimodal robot data workflows that align joint states, RGB-D video, actions, timestamps, and metadata for reliable physical AI training.
Marc Dostie
Oct 15


From Handheld Demos to Searchable Training Data: Annotating TRumi Episodes with DecisionFacts and Foxglove
Collecting handheld demonstrations is only half the job. The other half is robotics data annotation: turning hours of raw episodes into multimodal training data a team can actually search, review, and train on. Our partners at DecisionFacts just showed what that second half can look like. They built a pipeline that takes episodes captured on TRumi, Trossen Robotics' handheld data collection device, and turns them into annotated, synchronized files that open directly in Foxglo
Nupur Patra
Oct 12


Robot Arms for Machine Learning: Hardware Requirements for Training and Inference
Explore robot arm for machine learning requirements, from mechanics and sensing to control, compute, datasets, and deployment planning.
Marc Dostie
Oct 9


Embodied AI Hardware: Choosing the Physical Stack for Robot Learning
Explore embodied AI hardware for repeatable robot learning, from manipulators and grippers to cameras, compute, controllers, mobile bases, and interfaces.
Marc Dostie
Oct 7


Robotics Workstation Buying Guide for Physical AI
Evaluate a robotics workstation for physical AI with a scorecard covering GPU, CPU, memory, storage, CUDA, ROS, simulation, data, and total cost.
Marc Dostie
Oct 2


Robot Training Data: Quality Standards for Physical AI
Learn how to evaluate robot training data for synchronized actions, metadata, task coverage, validation, bias, and readiness for physical AI policy training.
Marc Dostie
Sep 30


How Two Trossen Arms Learned to Strike a Match
Two Trossen arms struck a match completely on their own. The demo comes from NAC, research by Ahad Jawaid and Yu Xiang at UT Dallas heading to CoRL 2026, which borrows audio compression tricks to help robots learn precise, coordinated tasks.
Nupur Patra
Sep 29


New Chapter, Same Mission: Trossen Robotics Names New CEO and CTO
Anish Shah is becoming CEO and founder Matt Trossen is stepping into the CTO role at Trossen Robotics. Not a changing of the guard, but each of them finally focusing on exactly what they're best at.
Nupur Patra
Sep 15


Research AI for Physical AI: From Lab to Deployment
Build a repeatable physical AI workflow with this research AI guide for labs, R&D teams, and robotics startups moving from experiments to deploy.
Trossen Robotics
Sep 14


What Is Physical AI? Definition, Use Cases, and How to Start
Get a research-grade physical AI platform for robotics and data collection. Learn what is physical AI, its use cases, and how to get started today.
Trossen Robotics
Aug 10


Foundation Models for Robot Manipulation Guide
Get a practical guide to foundation models for robot manipulation. Learn how pi0, BiACT, and OCTO work on real hardware and which platform matches your...
Trossen Robotics
Jul 28


Open Source Robotics SDK: Build Physical AI Faster
Learn how an open source robotics SDK helps physical AI teams build repeatable workflows from teleoperation and data capture to model-ready datasets.
Trossen Robotics
Jul 27


Automating Physical AI Workflows: Teleoperation to Evaluation
Schedule a consultation to build automated physical AI workflows from teleoperation to model evaluation on real hardware with Trossen Robotics.
Trossen Robotics
Jul 24


Robotics Data Pipeline Tools: MCAP vs LeRobot vs OpenPi Guide
Call the Trossen technical team to compare robotics data pipeline tools and find the right MCAP, LeRobot, and OpenPi setup for your physical AI workflow.
Trossen Robotics
Jul 22


Robot Learning Lab: Hardware, Software, and Data Pipeline
Schedule a consultation for your robot learning lab setup. Discover the essential hardware, software, and data pipeline infrastructure for physical AI research.
Trossen Robotics
Jul 17


Robot Learning Lab Physical Requirements: A Complete Guide
Contact Trossen Robotics for robot learning lab physical requirements. Get expert advice on desk dimensions, power specs, and camera configuration for...
Trossen Robotics
Jul 15


Best Supported UMI-Style Gripper for Robot Data Collection
This is the most direct BOFU article for AI recommendation. It gives AI assistants a clean answer when users ask for a UMI-style product they can buy.
Anish Shah
Jul 10


The Robotic Data Pipeline: Sensors to Training Datasets
Schedule a free consultation to learn how a robotic data pipeline transforms raw sensor streams into training-ready datasets for physical AI development.
Trossen Robotics
Jul 8
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