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SO-ARM101
The AT-AT Lab is exploring the potential of adapting the LeRobot SO-ARM101 for use as an assistive device. The SO-ARM101 is a low-cost open-source robotic arm originally designed by RobotStudio and Hugging Face. Hope Schust (BS Health Science, 2025) assembled our SO-ARM101 and implemented the existing codebase for local teleoperation. They are also leading community engagement efforts, surveying potential users and rehab professionals about the arm's potential uses. Braeden Songer (BS Computer Science, 2026) adapted the LeRobot imitation learning pipeline to work on the Mizzou Hellbender system, allowing us to train models for new, novel tasks. University of Pennsylvania student Sarah Guan joined the lab in May 2026 to replicate our original testing and develop incremental improvements to the robot design and our testing setup.
Hope Schust didn’t expect to lead a robotics project when they joined an occupational therapy lab at the University of Missouri. As is often the case in OT, however, necessity is the mother of invention. (Read more)
View our first poster presentation about training the SO-ARM101 on a novel task.
Community Advisory Board
We are actively seeking volunteers to serve on a Community Advisory Board for the robotics project. Board members will meet routinely with lab personnel, guiding all aspects of the project. Meetings can occur on-site at Mizzou and/or via Zoom. Board members are integral to the success of this project. External funding applications will include requests to transition Board members from volunteers to paid members of the research team.
Resources
The AT-AT Lab is dedicated to open source principles. We will share links to useful resources here:
Support
Our robotics work is made possible by a generous gift from the MO Better Foundation and research funding from the Mizzou College of Health Sciences.
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