What a task is

A task is one thing you ask Ask agent to do, in your own words. "Train Laika to walk forward at 0.3 m/s" is a task. So is "Test this policy in sim". The agent plans the work, runs it, and shows you the results. Every task appears in one list on the Ask agent page.

Ask agent appears where this hub has an AI model connected. Elsewhere, connect your own AI to the hub instead: see Use the hub from your AI.

Starting a task

Type what you want and press Start task. The chips under the box add context: the robot, a dataset, a policy. Runs on says where training and sim tests run: Lucen cloud CPU, Lucen cloud GPU, or your own machine. Lucen cloud appears only where this hub offers it. The agent must keep to the choice you make.

The examples under the box name only robots and policies you can see. A click fills the box. Nothing starts until you press Start task.

Plan first

Plan first is on unless you switch it off. With it on, the agent shows its plan and waits for you. The plan lists each training round, where it runs, and what it may cost. You approve it, or tell the agent what to change.

With Plan first off, the hub may approve a plan for you. It does so only when the plan is free, or fits what is left of your free allowance. Any other plan still waits for you. Only you can switch it off, from your own signed-in session.

A plan that would go past your free allowance needs one more step. You tick the box that accepts the extra amount, and only then can you approve it.

The stages

A task's page shows which stage it has reached, and when it reached each one.

1. Planning. The agent is working out what to do.
2. Awaiting approval. A plan, or a spend the plan did not cover, waits for you.
3. Training. A training run is going.
4. Testing in sim. A sim test of the policy is going.
5. Ready for review. There is something for you to read. It may be a finished run and its sim test score, a shortlist, or the agent's answer.
6. Deploy pending approval. A request to run the policy on a robot waits for a person.
7. Deployed. A robot runs the policy, or ran it.

A task can also end Failed or Stopped. Sometimes a decision waits for you while work goes on. The task then keeps its stage, and the list adds "Needs you".

The Evidence section of a task's page plays the newest sim test video. It lists every sim test of the task with its result, and every deploy request.

Deploying needs a person

The agent can train a policy and test it in sim. It can also ask to run the policy on a robot. Only a person signed in to the hub can approve that. The request waits on its own approval page, with the checks the hub ran. How approvals keep your robot safe explains each step.

You can also give a task to one of your connected robots. Choose it in the Robot chip. The agent then works on that robot, and a person approves each time it hands the robot a policy.

Stopping a task

Press Stop on the task's page. The agent stops, and so do the training runs it started. A robot already running a policy keeps going until its approved minutes end. To stop the robot now, press STOP on My robots.