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Many of these arms ship with no teleop stack and no teleop input device, so you'll choose and integrate the operator hardware, write the mapping from human motion to robot motion, and own everything that runs on the robot. You'll also be the person who makes sure every frame of data we record is correctly timestamped and synchronized.\nWhat you'll do\nIntegrate new commercial arms and grippers: vendor SDKs, drivers, calibration, and a common control interface.\n\nEvaluate and integrate operator input devices (leader arms, VR controllers, 6-DoF mice, haptics).\n\nWrite and tune inverse kinematics and Cartesian/joint controllers for high DOF robotic arms for teleoperation and manipulation.\n\nDesign for latency you can't remove: local safety limits, workspace and collision constraints, graceful handling of dropped or late packets, and safe stop when the link degrades.\n\nPrototype shared-autonomy features (assisted grasping, motion smoothing, task-level primitives) that make long-distance teleop faster and less tiring.\n\nOwn sensor integration: cameras, depth, wrist cams, joint state, force/torque. 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