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LeRobot adds Unitree G1 remote inference via SONIC

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What changedA LeRobot PR adds remote inference support for the Unitree G1 with the SonicWholeBodyController, using a 64-dim motion token as the wait contract.
Why it mattersTeams deploying policies on real robots with LeRobot can now run the policy server on a GPU box while the decoder and 50Hz balance loop stay on the G1's onboard Jetson, with only 64-dim tokens over the network, filling the gap left after the old async gRPC client was deprecated.
Who should careOpen-source model users
Affected stackNo specific stack identified
Source confidenceHigh · Official release / blog / repo

The PR adds SONIC remote inference support for the Unitree G1. Under the SonicWholeBodyController, the G1 declares a rollout wait contract: on standby it resends the last full 64-dim motion token so the onboard decoder keeps balancing. Token echo now uses the action key, so observed tokens can be replayed before the first policy result, and the echo is the decoder's neutral token rather than all-zeros (which decodes to a bent-over pose). It adds a nepyope/sonic_walk server config and a hardware-validated G1 operating procedure. The locomotion controller and raw joint control remain unsupported. For teams running remote policies on the Unitree G1 with LeRobot, deployment becomes: the policy server runs on a GPU machine, while the robot bridge, SONIC decoder, and 50Hz rt/lowcmd loop stay on the G1's Jetson, with only 64-dim token chunks sent over the network. When the action buffer runs dry, rollout repeats the last token for up to one second (controlled by action_starvation_grace_s); with no new prediction it errors out and follows the shutdown or disconnect path. The G1 locomotion controller is still unsupported, since gamepad velocity can't be preserved this way.

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