feat(opentrons): Opentrons Flex liquid handler (plain-class, mount-addressed heads) - #1184

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feat(opentrons): Opentrons Flex liquid handler (plain-class, mount-addressed heads)

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feat(opentrons): gripper capability + fine pipetting on Flex heads

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feat(opentrons): container/reservoir ops + motion surface on Flex heads and gripper

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feat(opentrons): custom labware definition upload for non-Opentrons labware

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fix(opentrons): post-review fix pass on the Flex capability stack

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fix(opentrons): well-position clearance, rotated-cavity guard, and stub-labware refusal on Flex

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fix(opentrons): anchor uploaded well geometry at the real cavity floor

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fix(opentrons): clear a cherry-picked tip, and anchor it where the robot can reach

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build: declare httpx in the opentrons extra

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docs: drop a stranded copy of the channel-spreading comment in dispense

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Expose the lifecycle steps behind setup() and stop()

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Take flow-rate defaults from the robot's own pipette data

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Resolve labware by declared load name or model, and drop tips where the trash is

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`CaptureReader.done()`: end validation instead of re-arming it

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`io.http`: record and replay a request/response device API

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`OpentronsRobot`: route the wire through `io.http`, add replay and `send_command`

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`OpentronsFlex`: name-based motion, in-place pipetting, and recovery commands

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Read tip presence as a run command, not over GET /instruments

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Let the robot assign labware ids, so a capture can be replayed

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Fix two engine-contract bugs the simulator sweep found

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Address the driver review: capture recipe, optional extra, lifecycle repeats

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Carry the slot-deck reads and OT-2 channel moves onto the plain-class line

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move_to_well: accept a tip spot, not just a well

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Let a deck attach to a live robot, and stop create_run stranding the old run

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A Flex head carries its own pipette capacity

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Fold the repeated aspirate/dispense plumbing into one helper

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Say which head was verified on hardware, per op

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Let the robot own plunger priming

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Record the in-place ops as hardware verified, and say where a tip belongs

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Take the legacy backend changes out of this PR

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Drop the opentrons-shared-data dependency

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Let the robot say what labware names it knows, instead of guessing here

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Let the resource say which definition revision to load

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Unify FlexHead8 around per-call use_channels, and always travel above a tip rack

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fix(opentrons): record FlexHead8 hardware-verified ops accurately

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chore(opentrons): green the Flex-stack CI checks

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Choose a single-tip anchor by what the idle nozzles sit over, not by row letter

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Make the single-tip anchor a declared argument, not a derived one

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Record what the 8-channel head and gripper have now run on hardware

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Credit the 8-head with the in-place and recovery ops it ran on hardware

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Record what the 8-head and the gripper have run on hardware

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feat(opentrons): default the single-tip anchor to H1, derive the well from tip tracking

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fix(opentrons): name the plate, not the well, when material_z_thickness is undeclared

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chore(opentrons): drop a stray editor workspace file

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fix(opentrons): restore the opentrons_shared_data mypy override

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