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What best describes your role?
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Undergraduate student
Master's student
PhD student / candidate
Postdoctoral researcher
Principal investigator / professor
Lab manager / research engineer
Industry researcher
Hobbyist / independent researcher
Other
In one or two sentences, what problem are you/is your lab trying to solve in robot learning?
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Which of the following Physical AI arms is your lab using?
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Trossen Robotics
Franka
ARX
AgileX Piper
I2RT YAM
Universal Robotics
Galaxea
SO-101
Custom Made
Industrial (Kuka, ABB)
Other
What is your lab's preferred method of teleoperation?
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Leader arm with gravity comp
Leader arm just reading encoders
VR Controllers
We don’t use teleop in our lab
Other
How are you and your lab currently collecting data?
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Leader-follower Teleoperation
VR controller Teleoperation
SpaceMouse / Gamepad Teleoperation
UMI-style hand-held collection
Egocentric / wearable data capture
Motion capture
Kinesthetic teaching (physically guiding the arm)
Autonomous rollouts (policy-generated data)
Simulation-generated data
I'm not currently collecting data
Other
What models does your lab use? (Please list all others)
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ACT
SmolVLA
OpenPi
World Models
RL
Diffusion
Other
What is the typical lab budget for purchasing arms or kits?
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Under $1,000
$1,000-2,000
$3,000-5,000
$5,000-10,000
$10,000-20,000
$20,000-50,000
$50,000+
Other
What are the most important software/firmware offerings from a hardware company, that you or your lab can't or do not wish to develop in house?
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CAN Controls
Drivers
Data Pipelines
Motion Planning
Simulation
Data Storage/infrastructure (Large Data Collection)
Other
What tools, software, or hardware has your lab had to build in-house that you wish you could have bought off the shelf?
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What sensors does your lab currently use, or foresee using in the future?
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Depth (Camera)
Force/Torque
Tactile/Touch
LiDAR
Audio
IMU
Other
How important is support, tutorials, and documentation to your lab?
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Not Important
0
1
2
3
4
Extremely Important
5
0 is Not Important, 5 is Extremely Important
What is your lab's current solution for data storage?
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Local (on computer)
Edge/Onsite/OnPrem (NAS, SMB, FTB)
Cloud (Private: AWS, Azure, GCP)
Cloud (Public: Google Drive, Dropbox)
Hugging Face
Other
Is your lab currently satisfied with your storage solution / data infrastructure? If yes, type "yes", If not, please explain.
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What is your lab's current solution for model training?
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Local (on computer)
Edge/Onsite/OnPrem (Server or dedicated edge compute)
Cloud (Private: custom build solution)
Cloud (Public: RunPod, Lambda, SageMaker, CoLab)
Other
Is your lab currently satisfied with your model training infrastructure? If yes, type "yes", If not, please explain.
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Select any/all features you would find valuable on a cloud service specifically made for robotic data
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Dataset upload, versioning, and organization
Visual episode browser (scrub through demonstrations, inspect observations and actions)
Data augmentation and filtering tools
Data quality diagnostics (detect dropped frames, outlier episodes, inconsistent demonstrations, etc.)
One-click fine-tuning on supported policy architectures (VLAs, etc.)
Hyperparameter configuration and experiment comparison
Model registry (store, version, and share trained checkpoints)
Simple model deployment to robot hardware
Fleet management and configuration
Shared workspaces for cross-lab collaboration
Integration with existing tools (HuggingFace, Weights & Biases, etc.)
Pre-loaded community datasets for benchmarking
None of these interest me
Other
OPTIONAL: Anything else you would like to share to Trossen?
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