The starting idea here is delightfully narrow: a robot with no task-specific training that picks up a single button and places it in a tray. Zero shot means the machine handles an unfamiliar job on the spot, and the maker pulled it off with all the thinking done on the robot itself.
The hardware is a wheeled mobile platform carrying an articulated mast, paired with an arm the maker designed and built in-house. Compute comes from a Jetson Orin Nano Super, and the whole run happens onboard with no cloud involved anywhere in the loop.
The full task took 58 minutes, and the recording runs at 175x speed. That time went into waiting on inference, locating the button and getting into position. Two habits stand out to me: every motor ran at the lowest speed to prevent damage, and the robot weighed each movement multiple times before committing to it. It also navigated the workshop entirely on its own, and even at that cautious pace the performance was well received.
A couple of things remain open. Self charging was left out of the planning on an earlier attempt, and selling the robot in the US is currently a puzzle because of FCC bans. The maker has said more videos covering the robot's capabilities are coming soon, so there should be plenty more to dig into.