ROBOTICS R&D PILOT STACK
MANTIS is our embodied-AI pilot stack.
A live RobotOps cockpit and validation framework for Jetson-powered robotics — connecting vision, speech, memory, service health, safety gates, and supervised action into one operator surface.
SSE LIVE
OBSERVATION-ONLY
JETSON ORIN
MEMORY FABRIC
QA TRIPWIRES
ROS2 BRIDGES
MANTIS is where we integrate the hard parts of embodied AI: perception, speech, memory, edge telemetry, supervised actions, and real-time operator visibility.
▮ WHY MANTIS
Robots do not fail in one place.
Embodied AI systems fail across surfaces — models, memory, speech, frontend contracts, containers, edge devices, ROS2 bridges, cache versions, and physical safety boundaries. MANTIS exists to make those failures visible before they reach the operator or customer.
01 / SURFACE
Multimodal complexity
Vision, language, speech, memory, and actions must stay synchronized.
02 / SURFACE
Edge reality
Jetson thermals, RAM, power, containers, and services affect behavior.
03 / SURFACE
Operator trust
Every proposed action needs visible state, traceability, and supervision.
04 / SURFACE
Demo reliability
Customer-visible regressions become reusable tripwires.
▮ SYSTEM TOPOLOGY
MANTIS is not one model.
It is the orchestration and validation layer around a distributed embodied-AI stack.
INFERENCE · MEMORY · SPEECH
MotherPC
LLM / HERMES
RIVA SPEECH
HONCHO MEMORY
EMBED SERVICE
TRITON INFERENCE
EDGE · BRIDGES · TELEMETRY
MANTIS-Orin
VLM
ROS2 BRIDGES
JETSON TELEMETRY
CONTAINER HEALTH
EDGE SERVICES
OPERATOR · SCENARIO · SAFETY
CD5 Cockpit
SCENARIO RUNNER
LIVE VITALS
SAFETY STATE
SERVICE HEALTH
CX CANARIES
▮ THE OPERATOR SURFACE
CD5: the operator surface for MANTIS.
CD5 turns the robotics stack into a live control surface: service health, Orin vitals, memory state, speech state, scenario execution, safety posture, and container status in one interface.
/api/orin/vitals
Live Orin telemetry
GPU, CPU, RAM, thermals, power, fan, disk, and NVP model.
/api/services/health
Service health
MotherPC and Orin services tracked independently.
/scenario/run
Scenario runner
Run vision, memory, speech, and safety probes from one panel.
/sse/state
SSE live state
Operator view updates continuously without page refresh.
/trace/raw
Raw trace access
Debug the exact endpoint, response, and failure path.
/containers
Container visibility
Know which services are running, absent, paused, or degraded.
▮ REPEATABLE PROBES
Repeatable scenarios, not one-off demos.
Every scenario is a repeatable probe. MANTIS treats demos as testable flows, not theatrical one-offs.
▮ CONTINUITY LAYER
Memory is infrastructure, not a prompt trick.
Honcho, Embed, and Bus form the continuity layer behind MANTIS.
memory.honcho
Honcho
Persistent agent and user memory for goals, preferences, instructions, and context.
memory.embed
Embed
Semantic retrieval for previous observations, transcripts, scene descriptions, and task context.
memory.bus
Bus
Event flow between vision, speech, memory, UI, ROS2, and service health.
MANTIS uses memory to make robot interaction continuous across turns, sessions, users, and environments. The operator can verify when memory is used, when it is stale, and when it is unavailable.
▮ SAFETY POSTURE
Observation-first. Action-gated. Operator-visible.
MANTIS separates perception and proposed action from physical actuation. Operators can inspect what the system saw, remembered, proposed, and blocked before any motion path is enabled.
Proposed actions are read-only unless motion controllers are explicitly enabled.
▮ ACTION PROPOSALS ARE VISIBLE
▮ MOTION IS GATED
▮ SERVICE STATE IS INSPECTABLE
▮ SAFETY POSTURE IS ALWAYS SHOWN
▮ OPERATOR SUPERVISION REMAINS CENTRAL
▮ CX TRIPWIRES
Green tests are not enough. The customer experience must be green.
MANTIS converts escaped demo failures into reusable canary gates. If a frontend/backend contract drifts, a stale asset ships, or one user action creates duplicate side effects, the framework rejects the lane before it closes.
A previous voice issue passed server-side checks but failed in customer testing because frontend and backend response shapes disagreed. MANTIS now turns that class of failure into a reusable detector.
CD5.GATE.A1 — CUSTOMER-EXPERIENCE TRIPWIRE TRIO
▮ CURRENT STATUS
Pilot stack under active R&D.
STAGE
Pilot / R&D framework
FOCUS
Embodied-AI operations and validation
HARDWARE
MotherPC + Jetson Orin
RUNTIME
Multimodal services + ROS2 bridges
SAFETY
Observation-first, supervised action
DIRECTION
Field-ready RobotOps framework
MANTIS is the current proving ground for our robotics architecture. The goal is not to hide complexity, but to make it observable, testable, and safe to operate.
▮ BUILT FOR
Built first for robotics builders.
01
Robotics labs
Repeatable embodied-AI demos with live health and traceability.
02
Jetson · ROS2 teams
Edge telemetry, model services, bridges, and containers in one cockpit.
03
Field demo engineers
Know what failed before the customer does.
04
AI platform teams
Convert customer-visible failures into reusable gates.
05
Technical pilot partners
Bring a real robot stack and validate it under supervised operation.
▮ NEXT
Bring your robotics stack. Make it observable, demo-ready, and failure-aware.
SEE IT. REMEMBER IT. MONITOR IT. GATE IT.
▮ MANTIS · A1