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SmolVLA autonomously picking up the chocolate bar, fine-tuned on 130 episodes with RTC inference.

TL;DR

A hands-on journal: assembling a LeKiwi mobile manipulator, integrating with a PincOpen

parallel gripper, fixing the servo-dying issue, upgrading the STS3215 servos to the stronger STS3250, and fine-tuning SmolVLA to pick up a chocolate bar from a basket.