Epic: Documentation suite — tutorials, deployment guides, backend overview

[cagataycali]

Umbrella for user-facing documentation work. The library has solid individual-tool docs but missing end-to-end journeys and platform/deployment guides.

Scope

flowchart TB
  E2E[End-to-end tutorial<br/>unboxing → autonomous] --> DOCS
  CLOUD[Remote/cloud inference guide] --> DOCS
  ITER[Iterative control pattern docs] --> DOCS
  BACK[Additional backends section] --> DOCS
  PY[Python ≥3.12 release notes] --> DOCS
  EDGE[Target edge devices clarification] --> DOCS
  DOCS[Documentation Suite]

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Tasks

Tutorials

• End-to-end tutorial: hardware → calibration → recording → training → deployment → autonomous (docs: end-to-end tutorial — from unboxing to autonomous manipulation #142)
• Iterative control pattern (start_policy + polling) as SteppedSimEnv replacement (docs: document iterative-control pattern (start_policy + polling) as SteppedSimEnv replacement #136)

Deployment guides

• Remote/cloud inference guide for users without local GPU (docs: remote/cloud inference guide — for users without local GPU #141)
• Clarify target edge devices (Jetson Orin, Thor) — README + compatibility matrix (Clarify Target Edge Devices #3)

Reference docs

• Add 'Additional backends' section pointing at strands-labs/robots-sim (docs(readme): add 'Additional backends' section pointing at strands-labs/robots-sim #133)
• Document Python ≥3.12 requirement bump in release notes (docs: document Python >=3.12 requirement bump in release notes #89)

Replaces

#142, #141, #136, #133, #89, #3