Series
Curobo Jetson G1
The "Curobo Jetson G1" series has 10 parts — read them in order from part 1.
ManipulationcuRobo on Jetson AGX Orin 64GB and Unitree G1: a 10-part roadmap
The opening guide for using cuRoboV2 on robot arms and Unitree G1, from Jetson runtime architecture to whole-body deployment boundaries.
Installing cuRoboV2 on Jetson AGX Orin 64GB: environment, CUDA, and smoke tests
A reproducible Jetson setup for cuRoboV2 with JetPack, uv, Python 3.11, CUDA 12.x, PyTorch, and deployment-focused checks.
Building a cuRobo robot model: URDF, collision spheres, and self-collision
How to convert a robot arm URDF into a usable cuRobo config with mesh paths, sphere fitting, self-collision ignores, clipping, and pass/fail criteria.
FK and IK in cuRobo: checking frames, quaternions, and joint order
A practical validation guide for forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, wxyz quaternions, joint order, and frame mistakes before real robot planning.
Motion planning and grasping with cuRobo: obstacles, seeds, and trajectories
Running pose-to-pose planning, obstacle collision, warmup, grasp approach-lift, and planner tuning for robot arms on Jetson.
A ROS 2 bridge for cuRobo on Jetson: from goal pose to JointTrajectory
Designing a ROS 2 wrapper around cuRobo with actions, lifecycle warmup, joint-state reordering, retiming, controller execution, and watchdogs.
Scene mapping for cuRobo: depth cameras, TSDF/ESDF, and obstacle snapshots
Bringing the real world into cuRobo planning with cuboids first, depth later, timestamp discipline, filtering, TSDF/ESDF, and immutable scene snapshots.
Unitree G1 arm-only planning with cuRobo: moving arms without breaking balance
Using cuRobo for Unitree G1 arm-only workflows with locked legs/waist, joint maps, wrist tool frames, self-collision, and command gates.
Unitree G1 whole-body with cuRobo: floating base, tool frames, and retargeting
A deployment-oriented guide to Unitree G1 whole-body workflows with cuRobo extra_links, tool frames, MotionRetargeter, IK/MPC, and BVH/SOMA data.
Deploying cuRobo on real robots: checklist, current issues, and rollback
The final guide in the series: current cuRobo issues, Jetson deployment risks, and safety checklists for robot arms and Unitree G1.