Observed arrival · 2026-10-26
Vato Labs wants robots to improve without new hardware
Vato Labs presents a robotics lab focused on tuning existing robot arms with software, beginning with calibration work for the SO-101.
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- The page describes a roughly 20-minute run that models each servo, then uses live command compensation.
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The SO-101 project is described as building a model of each servo and applying live command compensation, with accuracy assessed at the gripper tip. The page also sets out two future tests: learning a task from phone footage and making breakfast reliably, with success defined as 19 of 20 runs. Its rules commit to reporting trials, failures, costs, and human help; code and models are promised as open source at launch.
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