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Field notes on robotics datasets, LeRobot curation, tactile sensing, MCAP sensor fusion, and VLA model evaluation.
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Robots Can See. They Still Can't Feel: 8 Tactile LeRobot Datasets in FiftyOne
Why touch is the missing frontier for robot learning, how tactile data is structured across gel sensors, force vectors, and taxel grids, and 8 open LeRobot datasets loaded into FiftyOne.
BlogRobot Data Quality Scoring: Why Scores Are Triage, Not Gates
Why action-only smoothness metrics invert on critical structural errors, why detector AUROC does not predict policy success, and how to use automated scoring for triage in FiftyOne.
BlogMCAP Authoring Errors: 6 Silent Bugs and How to Fix Them
When authoring MCAP files from robotics logs, errors rarely throw runtime exceptions. The file writes clean and passes validators, yet fails in viewers. Here are the 6 silent bugs and how to fix them.
BlogFrom Franka Arms to Humanoids: 11 LeRobot v3.0 Datasets for VLA Training in 2026
A comprehensive guide to 11 robot-learning datasets converted into LeRobot v3.0 format for inspection in FiftyOne, covering arms, bimanual setups, humanoids, and the robotics data action gap.
BlogWhy Vision-Only Imitation Fails at Delicate Contact: Low-Cost Dexterous Teleoperation & Tactile Policies
Why scaling camera tokens and 10 Hz foundation models hits a wall during high-DoF dexterous manipulation, and what sub-$35 shear sensors and handheld data-collection rigs change about it.
BlogDevRel for Physical AI and Robotics: Engineering Advocacy for the Real World
Why developer relations for physical AI, robotics, and embodied foundation models requires forward-deployed engineering, data inspection, and hardware-adjacent credibility.
BlogData Curation, the Voxel51 Agent, and In-App Annotation: A CropAndWeed Walkthrough
A data-centric audit of the CropAndWeed dataset exposing class imbalance misconceptions, sampling biases, 370 degenerate boxes, and 23 stem-point defects using FiftyOne.