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Cyberwave treats every arm the same: drop a digital twin into an environment, pair the hardware, and start sending commands from the dashboard, the Python SDK, or an AI controller. The same workflow scales from hobbyist desk arms to industrial cells.

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Pick your arm

Cyberwave supports hundreds of robotic arms out of the box, from the hobbyist SO-101 (setup guide) and the industrial Universal Robot UR7e (setup guide) to everything in between — browse the full lineup at cyberwave.com/catalog/tag/robotic-arm. Every catalog page bundles the bill of materials, supported drivers, and troubleshooting specific to that arm — start there whenever you’re unboxing new hardware.

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Set up an arm in 4 steps

1

Create an environment and add the arm

From the dashboard, click New Environment, then Add from Catalog and search for your arm (e.g. SO-101, UR7e). Position the twin to match your real workspace.
2

Add cameras and other sensors

Click Add from Catalog again and add a Standard Camera (or any other sensor twin). Dock it to the arm’s wrist or place it overhead — the twin hierarchy mirrors your physical mount. With the camera attached you’re already set up for data collection.
3

Pair the hardware

On any device connected to the arm (laptop, Raspberry Pi, Jetson), install the CLI and pair:
curl -fsSL https://cyberwave.com/install.sh | bash
sudo cyberwave pair
The CLI auto-detects the arm, installs the right driver, and links it to the digital twin. See Cyberwave Edge for details.
4

Calibrate and assign a controller

Open the twin in the dashboard, run Calibrate (required once per arm), then Assign Controller — pick Keyboard, Local Teleop, an AI policy, or a custom controller.
The arm streams joint states and camera frames into Cyberwave in real time, and the dashboard can drive it back through the edge.

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Control it from Python

Once the twin is paired, the Python SDK gives you the same API for any arm in the catalog: 
from cyberwave import Cyberwave

cw = Cyberwave()
arm = cw.twin("the-robot-studio/so101")   # or "universal_robots/UR7"

with cw.affect("live"):
    arm.joints.set("shoulder_pan", 30, degrees=True)
    arm.joints.set("elbow_flex", 45, degrees=True)
    arm.joints.set("gripper", 0, degrees=True)

frame = arm.capture_frame("numpy")        # grab the wrist camera frame
Swap cw.affect("live") for cw.affect("simulation") to run the exact same code against the digital twin — see Hello Robot and the simulation capability page.

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Collect data, train, deploy

Once an arm + camera pair is recording, you’re already producing datasets.
1

Record episodes

Switch to Live Mode in the dashboard and hit Start Recording while you teleoperate. Trim the timeline into episodes and export as a LeRobot-format dataset.
2

Train an RL or VLA policy

Train directly from the dashboard or with your own pipeline. See the SO-101 voice pick-and-place, SmolVLA training, and OpenVLA-OFT training tutorials.
3

Deploy on edge or cloud

Assign the trained policy as a controller. Cyberwave decides whether the model runs on the edge device next to the arm or in a cloud node — your code doesn’t change.

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Safety, simulation, and orchestration

  • Human takeover anytime. When an alert fires (collision risk, drift, anomaly), swap the AI policy back to Local Teleop or Keyboard with one click — the twin keeps streaming so the handover is seamless.
  • Validate in simulation first. Every environment exports to MuJoCo and a browser playground — run the same policy against the twin before letting it touch hardware. See Simulation.
  • Compose multi-step tasks. Wire perception, planning, and motion into repeatable sequences with Workflows — e.g. camera frame → object detection → VLA policy → gripper primitive — and fall back to Python whenever a step needs custom logic.

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Where to go next

Manipulation Capability

The full picture of what arms can do on Cyberwave.

SO-101 Tutorial

Step-by-step for the hobbyist arm.

UR7e Tutorial

Industrial setup with ROS 2 and the MQTT bridge.