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First Start

Confirm the robot is assembled, start the motion-control firmware for the first time and check that it came up healthy.

Two steps remain, and they are deliberately separate: confirming assembly records the robot as built, and starting the firmware powers its actuators.

Before You Start

  • All 25 of 25 actuators respond without faults, and every joint is calibrated at the confirmed home pose.
  • The robot hangs from its gantry hook or sits on a bench, the area is clear and hands are out of the joints.
  • On the Firmware page, the RPU card's Network and Control checks are both healthy.
  • You know how to cut power.

Confirm Assembly

The firmware won't start until assembly is confirmed. Open Firmware; until you confirm, it shows a banner asking "Is the robot fully assembled?"

  1. Select Confirm assembly.
  2. Select Check now to sweep every actuator; it takes about 15 seconds. You want 25 of 25 responding. A result such as "Actuator 7 isn't responding" sends you back to Calibrate Actuators.
  3. Type CONFIRM and select Confirm assembly. The page shows "Recorded. The firmware can be started now."

Confirming records the robot as assembled on the RPU, so the record survives a Raspberry Pi reflash, and sets the robot's onboard services, including Asimov Edge, to start on boot. It doesn't start the firmware, and it leaves the firmware's own Start on boot switch off.

Asimov Manager can't undo this

Reversing a confirmation takes asimovctl reset-setup on the command line — see Command Line. Confirm only a robot that is fully assembled, wired and calibrated.

Start the Firmware

Starting the firmware powers the actuators

The actuators come on in Damp — powered but limp — so the robot can't hold itself up. Keep it supported and keep clear of the joints.

On the Firmware page, select Start Firmware and confirm. From now on you can also start the robot with Start Robot on Overview — see Power On and Off.

Stop Firmware is always available while the firmware runs, whatever else is wrong.

Check It Came Up Healthy

Open Overview:

CheckHealthy
FirmwareRunning in the subsystem strip
Actuators25 of 25 responding
BatteryA percentage. A blank reading means Asimov Edge isn't running
Setup checklistGone from the sidebar

If anything is off, see Troubleshooting. Leave the firmware's Start on boot switch off for now; Start on Boot explains why.

Next: Stand Up and Walk — the robot is commissioned.

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