Stephanie Chan

Stephanie Chan

Content Writer, Labelix.ai

Stephanie writes about robotics, agriculture AI, and the training data behind them, for Labelix.ai, an independent data foundry for robotics and multimodal AI.

6 articles, newest first LinkedIn

A hand holding a white and orange Microduck upright on a wooden desk, between two laptops with code on their screens, while two people work in the background.
Profiles· 7 min read · Nov 9, 2026

Microduck: Pollen Robotics' Small Biped for Robot Learning

Microduck walks, picks things up with its beak and gets back up after a fall. The reason to take it seriously is that owners can train it to move differently.

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A grey robot arm holds out a white mug by its handle to a grey-bearded man in glasses and a dark suit, who takes it while holding a black folder.
Evaluation· 7 min read · Nov 5, 2026

How to Find Robot Failures in Hours of Video

Define what failure means for the task, search the footage for suspected failures with CreativAI, organize the results in Data Plates, then review and tag each attempt before drawing conclusions.

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A rendering of Franka's FR3 Duo: two white Franka Research 3 arms on a white and black column cart, reaching over a dark teal worktable with a purple and a green cube.
Profiles· 6 min read · Nov 4, 2026

Franka Robotics: Robot Arms for Manipulation Research

Franka Robotics builds force-sensitive arms for robot learning labs. Here's how the Franka Research 3 and the two-arm FR3 Duo compare, what buyers should know, and how DROID collected its demonstrations on Franka hardware.

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Two members of Hugging Face's LeRobot team in Hugging Face T-shirts standing in front of a whiteboard on either side of a white Reachy humanoid robot in a striped top.
Profiles· 8 min read · Oct 28, 2026

Hugging Face: Bringing Open-Source AI Into Robotics

Hugging Face sells two Reachy robots from Pollen Robotics and gives away LeRobot, the software to train them. Here's how the platforms differ, what buyers should know, and why useful robot learning still depends on data quality.

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Diagram of robot video of a robot hand over a white cup passing through an AI model to automated labels, then to a human review panel that confirms the labels and sets the outcome.
Annotation· 6 min read · Oct 28, 2026

Automated Data Labeling: Where Human Review Fits

AI can find the moments that matter in hours of robot video and propose labels for them. Here's how CreativAI structures that footage, and where human review turns candidate labels into ones a team can train on.

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Orange industrial robot arms working on both sides of a parts conveyor in a factory.
Physical AI· 7 min read · Oct 12, 2026

Why Is Robot Manipulation Hard Across Different Objects?

Recognizing an object doesn't tell a robot how to hold it. Here's how shape, weight, material and clutter each change the problem, and what training data needs to capture.

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