Federico Pascual · robotics, startups, go-to-market, AI
I've been building AI startups and taking them to market since 2014. Now I'm learning robotics in public, and writing about all of it.
A live physics simulation of the SO-101 robot arm replaying recorded pick-and-place demonstrations. Press the Take Control button to drive the arm yourself with the keyboard or a gamepad.
I'm Federico. I co-founded MonkeyLearn, ran marketing at Hugging Face, and now build my own products as a solopreneur with no investors. Lately I'm also teaching myself robotics, writing down what works, what breaks, and what it costs.
79 teleoperated episodes, two day-long training runs on an M3 MacBook, one glorious first success, and a hard lesson about task definition. The full story of teaching my SO-101 its first task, with real commands, real numbers, real failures.
6 min readRobotics
Why I picked Hugging Face's open-source arm, the vendor hunt, the parts that spent weeks crossing an ocean (and the camera that never shipped), the assembly, and the first time the follower arm mirrored my hand.
4 min readRobotics
I've been building AI startups and taking them to market since 2014, and now there's a robot arm on my desk that picks up socks on its own. How I got here, and what I'll write about.
6 min readRobotics
An open-source browser tool for the SO-101. Replay recorded episodes in physics-simulated 3D, teleoperate a virtual arm, and plug it all into the LeRobot ecosystem. Early days; more soon.
A learning hub and evaluation cockpit for the imitation-learning policies I train on the SO-101. One place to log runs, compare policies across tasks, and keep the success rates honest.