The Home screen
The four action tiles on the main app's landing screen, and where each one takes you.
Home is the first screen you see after you open a project at https://zeonsystems.app. It is a launcher: a banner reading PHYSICAL EXECUTION ENGINE, a quote (picked once per browser session), and a grid of square action tiles. Nothing on this screen shows live state. It exists to get you into the screen you actually want.
You can return here at any time by clicking the Home button in the header. The sidebar is hidden by default. Open it with the menu button at the far left of the header, and it carries a Home entry and a logotype that also navigate here.
The tiles
On zeonsystems.app you see four tiles, laid out in a 2×2 grid.
Execute Workflow
Opens the workflow editor. This is where you assemble a workflow out of skill steps, choose which world it runs against, and run it in the simulator. Opening the editor from this tile loads a world into the simulator for you, so you land on a scene rather than an empty viewport.
Use it when you want to build or run a protocol. See Authoring a workflow for the editor itself, and Running a workflow in the cloud sim for what "run" means in the cloud.
Practice Skill
Opens the Skills Editor, the same screen as Skills Editor in the sidebar. A skill is a Python function in robotic_code.py; this screen is where you write and iterate on one, and try it against the simulator without wrapping it in a whole workflow.
Use it when a single motion or action is misbehaving and you want a tight edit-and-try loop. See Authoring a skill and Skill authoring patterns.
Build World
Opens World Builder, the same screen as World Builder in the sidebar. A world is the scene your workflow runs in: which objects exist, and where they sit.
Use it before you write a workflow, because a workflow's steps refer to objects that must already be in the world. See Building a world.
Annotate Object
Opens the Object Database, the same screen as Object Database in the sidebar. This is the catalogue of object types you can place into a world, and where you define grasp and placement information for a new one.
Use it when the labware or instrument you need is not yet available to place. See Adding an object.
The tile that is missing in the cloud
The Home grid also defines a fifth tile, Past Executions, which opens the workflow list screen. That tile is filtered out when the app runs in cloud mode, for the same reason the Workflows sidebar entry is hidden there: the cloud environment is simulation-only and keeps no execution history to show you.
On a lab machine attached to a robot you get five tiles and the extra sidebar entry.
What Home does not tell you
Home shows no project status, no sync state, and no hardware state. In particular, do not treat this screen, or the hardware popover in the header, as confirmation that hardware is in a known-safe state before you move physical arms. See Running a workflow on real hardware for the checks that actually apply.
Updated 3 days ago