Autonomous robot policy lab / 001
Give us your robot.
We teach it how to move.
Then make it prove it.
Control policies trained in simulation, tested against a frozen gate, delivered for your Jetson.
Start with a $1 pilot Read a real delivery report01 / The standard
Our policies have to get through a gate before they ship: a second physics engine, courses they have never seen, thresholds written down before the run, and broken robots the gate must fail before its verdict counts.
02 / What the gate sees
CASE Hopper Rover, version 7The Hopper Rover is our own robot: four wheels and four rotors. The spec says drive by default, fly only over walls it can't drive over, land after each one, and drive over speed bumps. Version 7 finished 59 of 60 gate courses with zero crashes, and passed our old checks and a Jetson deploy. Then we watched the side view.
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Every gap of 1 m or more between two walls needs a wheel touchdown, in 95% of gaps. The speed bump must be driven.
A broken robot whose rotors can't throttle down after take-off. The gate fails it on 7 checks before it may judge anything.
Version 7 could only see ahead, so it forgot each wall once it was over it. The rover now has rear height rays and a touchdown sensor on every wheel.
PASS The current rover policy finishes 60 of 60 gate courses and lands in 91 of 91 gaps, with 0 crashes in 1,000 courses it never trained on. Along the way the gate passed one version whose wheels stepped on the walls; a person watching the runs caught it, so the gate is getting a rule for that too.
03 / The machines
Every number on this page comes from a gate report. Nothing is rounded up.
Skydio X2 · customer A · SHIPPED
Position hold under gusts of 0.25 g every 1.5–3 s. The customer's own MuJoCo model, imported as-is: four rotors, 1.325 kg.
Fails 4 of 6 hardware-readiness probes, including one step of latency. Disclosed in the report.
Read the delivery reportUnitree A1 v5 · customer B · SHIPPED
Velocity-commanded walking with stop and turn, on randomized friction, payload and pushes. Versions 4b and 4c were rejected by the gate.
Holds one step (20 ms) of latency, fails two. Fails a dead knee motor.
Report on requestHopper Rover · our R&D · PASS
Drives by default and flies only over what it can't drive over. One body, two ways of moving, and a gate that checks when it switches between them.
04 / From model to motion
Each station signs a record of what went in, what came out and its verdict. The next one refuses anything that isn't a PASS, or that changed after it was judged.
Your MJCF or URDF and a one-page robot card, compiled and checked.
We build the training robot and check it against your model before renting a GPU.
Isaac Sim, 4,096 copies in parallel on one L40S. The X2 run took 16 min 35 s.
Checkpoints compared on held-out courses, never on the gate's.
MuJoCo, randomized episodes, thresholds fixed in advance, then broken robots that must fail.
TensorRT on a Jetson GPU in a ROS 2 loop, checked for parity.
The package and the report: every check, every probe it fails.
Trained in Isaac Sim, judged in MuJoCo. A second engine tests whether a policy depends on the training simulator's quirks.
Training and checkpoint selection never touch the gate's seeds. Thresholds are written before the run, and a fix goes into the policy, never the threshold.
Robots that do nothing, have a capped rotor, dead wheels, a lifted leg or half a second of lag. If one passes, nothing ships.
If training doesn't know a rule, the optimizer finds the gap. The rover taught us that four times.
Recent verdicts, straight from the reports. Simulation-validated; none has run on a physical robot. Jetson inference is tested on real compute.
05 / Your next behavior
Pilot pricing, November 2026. We confirm the price in writing before any work starts.
$1
One behavior, 48-hour target. The trained policy, the gate report and a Jetson TensorRT package. While we take our first customer robots.
$2,500
A delivered package that passed the gate, including retraining when the first run fails.
$750/mo
Re-gate when your robot or spec changes, up to twice a month.
Plain-language draft; a lawyer has not reviewed it yet. The full text comes with your quote.
06 / Put us to the test
Today we take legged robots and multirotors with one thrust actuator per rotor. Unsure? Send it anyway and pick "other".
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