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Constraint is becoming the defining force in AI and robotics. Compute, energy, supply chains, and talent are tightening, and the era of “just scale it” is colliding with reality. This essay argues we have to shift from gluttony to ROI: build production-grade stacks, optimize across training and inference, and deploy modular, measurable systems that industry can trust. If we do that, AI becomes infrastructure, not theater.

Most Physical AI projects don’t fail in demos. They struggle later, when systems weren’t set up for the work they’re asked to do. At Trossen Robotics, we partner with teams early to stand up scalable hardware, software, and data systems that hold up under real use. By addressing wear, embodiment fit, and data scale upfront, we help teams reduce friction, adapt over time, and maintain momentum as projects grow.

Sitcoms don’t succeed because of one great episode. They succeed because the world they build can keep generating new stories. Physical AI faces the same test. As programs mature, platforms must carry learning forward across time, people, and projects. From serviceable hardware and expressive kinematics to intuitive teleoperation, coherent SDKs, and data continuity, we design physical AI systems to support long arcs of real work—not one-off demos.

Our support inbox isn’t just troubleshooting. It’s a window into how real teams succeed with robotics. Every question reveals how data practices, intuitive teleoperation, system stability, and clear integration paths shape progress in the real world. By staying close to support conversations, we’re learning what helps teams move faster, stay confident, and build momentum—and using those insights to design tools that scale with real work, not demos.

Trossen AI robotic arms are now fully integrated with the OpenPI framework, enabling data collection, training, and inference of state-of-the-art VLA models like π₀ and π₀.₅. Developed by Physical Intelligence, OpenPI supports scalable, general-purpose robotics using vision-language-action learning. With this integration, users can fine-tune and deploy robotic policies on real hardware. Docs now live.

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The Trossen TOTL Workstation delivers top-tier performance, Linux compatibility, and preloaded AI tools—designed for machine learning without the enterprise price tag.

Trossen Legacy Hardware Reaches End-of-Life.

Trossen Robotics and General Robotics Announce Partnership to Bring AI-Enhanced Capabilities to Trossen’s AI Robot Lineup via GRID

View the new features, changes, and bug fixes for the latest 1.8.1 firmware for Trossen AI.

Trossen Robotics hardware featured in DeepMind’s AI research on CBS’s 60 Minutes, highlighting our role in advancing embodied AI and machine learning.

Marc discusses why pragmatic robotics—the kind that performs a few functions well, is priced appropriately, and can be deployed today—is likely to dominate in the near future.

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The ALOHA 2.0 package brings a transformative update to the world of robotics, introducing modular configurations and enhanced flexibility.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich have developed an electrohydraulic musculoskeletal leg

Fireside chat with Remi Cadene, from Hugging Face, and Shantanu Parab, from Trossen Robotics.