Getting Started with videos, official guides and communities!
1. Watch Ilia’s Getting Started Videos (~3min left | ~40min right)
In Ilia’s videos, he shows you how to take a $130, 3D-printed, five-DOF “Standard Open Arm 100” from assembly through teleoperation (using either a mirrored leader–follower arm setup or a PS4 controller) to dataset collection (≈50 demos of a ball-into-cup task), training (in both real and simulated gym environments with policies like ACT or his own DOT-Policy), and finally running the learned model on the real robot. He covers hardware tweaks (grippers, cameras, motors), performance limits (≈40 cm reach, ~200 g payload, PID-tunable jitter), tips for clean data (high-contrast mat, hide the leader arm), common failure modes (freezing, edge-of-workspace errors), and the iterative “collect → train → evaluate → refine” loop that makes the system improve.
- Follow Ilia:
Linktree Ilia | TikTok | Linktree
2. Get your own Robot
See link below and follow the ReadMe from the RobotStudio, the creator of SO-ARM:
You can buy a kit for example from WowRobo, an official vendor, provides all the parts or assembled kits. They are also the sponsor of the tutorial series & provide my community with a discount!
- Buy one here & get 5% off using code
LYCHEEAI5(it also supports the video series)
3. Assemble & Setup your robot
Follow this official “Assemble and use SO-101” guide from LeRobot:
or check out some of the video & written guides here:
SO-ARM: Assemble & Setup your robot4. Join Communities & Ask Questions
Look for all the communities here