MadmanMischief/so101_candy_sort

SO101 candy sort — 30 real teleoperated demos, full resolution

Task: teach an SO101 arm (leader/follower teleoperation) to pick the blue candies out of a mixed blue and green pile and drop them on a towel. Language prompt: "pick up the blue candy". Built during the B1S Hacktober Physical AI 2026 hackathon with LeRobot 0.6.2.

Robot: SO101 follower, 6 joints (pan, lift, elbow, wrist flex, wrist roll, gripper) at 30 Hz. Cameras: wrist (USB webcam on the gripper) and phone (Android phone beside the table).

First real demos: 30 episodes, 8,124 frames (about 9 s each) at 30 fps. Wrist 640x480, phone 1280x720 (DroidCam, with a watermark). Each episode picks one blue candy and drops it on the towel.

Models trained on it: act_so101_candy_sort, smolvla_candy_sort

Use with LeRobot

from lerobot.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset
ds = LeRobotDataset("MadmanMischief/so101_candy_sort")

lerobot-train --dataset.repo_id=MadmanMischief/so101_candy_sort --policy.type=act --policy.repo_id=<you>/<model>

Dataset Structure

meta/info.json:

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                "wrist_roll.pos",
                "gripper.pos"
            ],
            "shape": [
                6
            ]
        },
        "observation.state": {
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            ],
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        },
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    "video_path": "videos/{video_key}/chunk-{chunk_index:03d}/file-{file_index:03d}.mp4",
    "robot_type": "so_follower",
    "splits": {
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    }
}

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