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Observed arrival · 2026-09-26

Distortion Lab’s robot-safety research

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An independent research lab presents work on safety and robustness for learned robot controllers, alongside a kinematics demo, publications, and downloadable artifacts.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-26 issue.
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Robotics researchers studying learned robot control
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The homepage lists 550 evaluated column variants, a 24-step return window, and raw telemetry downloads; the results are lab-reported.

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The page organizes the work into robustness, runtime safety, failure diagnostics, and sim-to-real deployment, and links a preprint, repository, checkpoints, and raw JSONL telemetry. Its kinematics demo exposes Run Trajectory and Halt Episode controls; the homepage also describes a 24-step return window and says it evaluated 550 column variants, though those numbers are lab-reported rather than independently verified in this extract.

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