THE MECHANISM
Spoken command → expressive act → measured result
03One owner per transition
→04State machines make recovery explicit
→05Demo quality is an evaluation protocol
FAILURE → REPAIR
Common trap
“Once each track works alone, integration is just wiring.”
Better model
Shared clocks, stale messages, retries, ownership, network loss, and physical reset behavior are new system-level failure modes.
YOUR NEXT GATE
Capstone runbook
- 1Bring up voice/face, orchestrator, policy server, and body in a fixed order.
- 2Run health checks before enabling motion.
- 3Send one spoken task through the full state machine.