Safety & Reliability | Robotomy Labs

📄️The demo didn't fail because of WiFi — it crashed

Symptom

Pitfall

📄️Teaching kids to program a humanoid: sim first, harness always, teacher never leaves

This describes a curriculum safety design reasoned through for a future teaching phase of this project — block-based programming, MuJoCo validation, and a physical harness workflow. Not yet built. Filed here because the safety architecture is worth documenting now, even ahead of implementation.

Planned

📄️The kill-phrase listener's first working version added 14 seconds of STT latency

Symptom

Pitfall

📄️Why the safety abort doesn't route through the pipeline it might need to interrupt

Another decision-rationale entry, not a pitfall. This one's about a safety design choice made deliberately, before anything went wrong — worth documenting because the reasoning generalizes to any voice-pipeline project with a real-world safety surface, not just this one.

Decision