Muir · Project Entry Point
Muir Robotics
A build line for AI-driven manipulation, and a screening instrument for finding the products worth pointing it at.
Rig
SO-ARM101 pair · Jul 29
Stack
LeRobot v0.6.0 · RunPod
The thesis, in three lines
THROUGHPUT
A robot sells throughput and nothing else. If a candidate doesn't raise units per hour of attention, it's a demo.
RIGID INTERFACE
The robot must only ever touch something rigid — but that thing needn't be the product. A handle or jig is enough.
THE INVERSION
Humans are good at repetition-with-skill. Robots are good at variation-without-skill. Every strong candidate exploits that.
Project queue
- Cube CourierPick cube to bin — first imitation-learned policynext
- Say-It-SortLanguage-conditioned sortingqueued
- Tic-Tac-Toe TitanStructured play, multi-step planningqueued
- Washcloth ValetFirst deformable attemptqueued
- Claude-at-the-ControlsMCP orchestrator over the policy layerqueued
Open items
- Measure the rig on arrival. Neither Seeed nor TheRobotStudio publishes reach, payload, or repeatability. Every threshold in the screen rests on an unmeasured assumption. 30-replay repeatability at full extension, backlash, thermal drift over 60 minutes, payload to failure.
- Establish MTBI. Mean cycles between interventions on a 100-cycle unattended run. Nobody has published this for hobby hardware — it gates every form factor and is the first publishable artifact.
- Accounts. Hugging Face and RunPod, both free tier.
- Scaffold cube-courier repo. LeRobot v0.6 environment, session scripts, eval harness.
- Verification backlog. Six unconfirmed market claims listed in the screen — guest counts, sold prices, blank costs, and whether Arabic and Urdu script handling is genuinely underserved.