R1 S/N:003 – Issues with base status display

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Robot Name 🤖

R1 S/N:003

Request/Failure description

The display on the robot base, when switching on the main switch, displays an error message and the robot PC do not to seem to reliably start when switched on.

Detailed context

The display on the base of the robot turns on displaying an error message "Drive not mounted" (figure 1 of Additional context). Then it either switches to a broken version of the standard visualization (figure 2 of Additional context) or stays black with the blinking error message. When the screen switched from the blinking error everything seemed to work fine. When, on the other hand, the display was stuck on the blinking error, the robot PCs and wifi router did not turn on at first try (the wifi networks generated by the robot router were not available) but everything seemd to work again after turning the PCs off and back on.

Additional context

Figure 1

Figure 2

How does it affect you?

This issue puts us in a troublesome position. If the robot doesn't turn on reliably we could potentially get stuck in "switch on/switch off" loops and since we have a lot of experiments to run, this could slow down our work.