This week we built the “program by demonstration” tool for the Stretch robot. We whipped up a simple UI that lets you:

1. Save named poses with a single click
   
   

2. Go to those poses on demand
   
   

Under the hood, the UI talks to our server, which then sends the commands straight to the Stretch API.

What you’ll see in the videos:

• Video 1 (Programming/Demo): I use the UI to capture a handful of end-effector poses—raising and lowering the bar, opening and closing the gripper, etc. You’ll see me hit “Save Pose,” "Go to Pose", then immediately send the robot back to that exact spot.
  
  

We did run into a little problem with the base’s forward motion—it still needs some calibration so it doesn’t veer off course—but that’s next on our fix-it list.

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