# Surface + multiple learning modules **URL:** https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/surface-multiple-learning-modules/998 **Category:** General **Created:** [February 7, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/surface-multiple-learning-modules/998 "2026-02-07T09:39:15Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![nleadholm](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.thousandbrains.org/nleadholm/32/48_2.png) [@nleadholm](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/u/nleadholm) #### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/surface-multiple-learning-modules/998/6 "2026-02-09T15:46:50Z")
Ok great, that’s useful context. In that case, I would focus on the distant agent with voting, more than the surface agent. Even if your camera is attached to a robotic arm, as long as it maintains a reasonable distance from the object, then it is more analogous to the distant agent. For a first experiment, you might want to see the [Monty Meets World hackathon](https://thousandbrainsproject.readme.io/docs/using-monty-for-robotics#example-1-monty-meets-world-ipad-app) we did. In that, we take a single, large RGB-Depth image, and have the agent move “within” that image. It could be a good way of testing your setup before your robotic arm actually starts moving. @Zachary_Danzig has been working on something similar as part of a research project he’s doing, so you may also be interested in [the discussion in this thread](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/design-of-final-year-undergraduate-project-with-the-inclusion-of-the-tbp/417). Note that once you start setting up voting and having the robotic arm move, I would suggest that you define the multiple SMs as part of a camera pre-processing stage, rather than trying to use a “view-finder” as a single sensor module. I think that is what you were planning on doing anyways, but I just thought I’d clarify that for voting to work, you should define multiple SMs, rather than trying to route a single (large) SM to multiple LMs. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.thousandbrains.org/t/surface-multiple-learning-modules/998)._