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Notes from the rig

How we build paddy: teleoperation, recording and the details that make robot demonstrations worth training on.

Oct 5, 2026 · Lab
We're opening a Real2Sim2Real lab in San Francisco with Industrial Next

On October 8, Paddy and Industrial Next open the R2S2R Arena, a 10,000 sq ft real2sim2real lab in SoMa built around one loop: collect real data, ground it in sim, train, deploy, repeat.
Oct 1, 2026 · Teleoperation
Quest controllers, headset off: how we built a teleop rig operators can use for hours

How paddy uses Meta Quest controllers with the headset off to drive one or two UFACTORY xArms, with switchable scaling, online Cartesian planning and every signal recorded to MCAP.