## 🔬 Condensed matter & materials physics
My publications are indexed on [my HF papers page](https://huggingface.co/iliya-radulov/papers)
(arXiv: e.g. 2610.28647, 2305.02867, 1111.0050, …).
## 🤖 Robotics (preprints, pending arXiv)
- **Getting SmolVLA to Run on a Low-Cost Arm** — [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/23919529)
- **When Does a Trigger Reach a Robot Policy?** — [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/23143961)
- **Field Notes from a Low-Cost Robot Learning Lab** — [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/23259698)
- **Distribution Mismatch, Lighting, and Background Generalization** — [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/23212488)
*Robotics preprints are on Zenodo; arXiv versions will follow. HF's paper index currently only auto-links arXiv.*
Field Notes from a Low-Cost Robot Learning Lab: Hardware Churn, Software Whiplash, and What Actually Went Wrong
An informal companion piece documenting the hardware incidents, framework churn, and debugging dead-ends from roughly seven weeks of work. It is written for people building similar setups on a hobbyist budget and is candid about the time lost to causes like loose power cables and swapped ports.
About me: I am an independent researcher. These works are part of a single-operator project on low-cost robot learning. My ORCID is 0000-0001-8943-5083. For questions or collaboration, feel free to reach out via the HF community.