WaldoHow Waldo works
Waldo is a physical-AI data market. You pilot a real robot arm in your browser, a physics engine proves your run is genuine, and every proven demonstration is minted to your wallet as a Data ID you own, earning airdrop points. No forged data is ever rewarded.
The one honest loop
Teaching robots real-world skills needs real human demonstrations. Waldo turns anyone with a browser into a data contributor: pilot, prove, own. The difference from a “click to earn” site is that here the reward is gated by physics, not trust.
- Pilot in-browserA Franka or xArm7 arm in a real MuJoCo physics simulation, no install.
- Physics-verifiedYour run is re-simulated bit-for-bit. Reproduce it or earn nothing.
- Own your dataEach proven run mints an ERC-721 Data ID into your wallet.
- Earn pointsPoints accrue onchain and weight a future token airdrop.
From your hands to onchain
Every point is earned, not claimed
As you pilot, your browser records the exact ctrl input at every physics step: not the outcome, the inputs. When you submit, the server replays those inputs from your initial state in the same MuJoCo WebAssembly binary you played in. The simulator is deterministic (solver warmstart is disabled), so an honest run reproduces the server's final state exactly, with a maximum difference of zero. The task checker is then evaluated on the server's state, never on your claim.
Your run becomes a Data ID NFT
When a run is proven, Waldo records it in the WaldoData contract on Robinhood Chain mainnet. It mints an ERC-721 token (the Data ID, whose id is the hash of your trajectory) directly into your wallet, with fully on-chain metadata (a base64 data URI: no IPFS, no external host). You hold a permanent, transferable provenance record of the training data you produced.
- token
- Waldo Data ID #128
- standard
- ERC-721 · on-chain metadata
- task
- Close the box
- verification
- bit-identical
- points
- +50
- owner
- your wallet
Live onchain
Read straight from the contract: every figure below is real onchain state.
Why points, not a payout
Waldo pays no stablecoin. Paying cash per demonstration doesn't scale and invites pure extraction. Instead, each proven run credits airdrop points onchain (harder tasks earn more) that will weight a future token distribution. And because you also own the Data ID itself, provenance follows you when the data is licensed for training.
The result: contributors are aligned with the network they're building, the reward can't be farmed for instant cash, and the thing of lasting value (verified, owned training data) stays in your wallet.
Your first demonstration
- Connect a wallet. Required to pilot; there is no guest mode, since your run is minted to you.
- Pick a task from the task board.
- Pilot the arm with your keyboard (see controls below) and complete the manipulation.
- Hit “Verify on server” to re-simulate your run.
- If physics proves it, your Data ID NFT is minted and points are credited instantly, onchain.
Piloting the arm
Where it runs
Questions
Do I need a wallet?
Yes, connecting a wallet is required to pilot. There is no guest mode, because your demonstration is minted directly to you.
What stops someone faking a run?
Every trajectory is re-simulated bit-for-bit on our servers in the same physics engine you played in. If it doesn't reproduce, or the goal isn't actually achieved on the server's state, it earns nothing.
Is real money paid out?
No. Waldo rewards airdrop points and mints the data itself to you as an NFT, not a stablecoin. See Airdrop points.
Can bots farm tasks?
Physics doesn't care who pilots, so a good enough bot can solve a task. Anti-farming measures (per-wallet rate limits and movement analysis) are on the roadmap.
What am I actually piloting?
A robot arm simulated in MuJoCo, compiled to WebAssembly; the exact same binary runs in your browser and on the verification server. Tasks 1-9 use a Franka Panda, tasks 10-12 a UFactory xArm7.