🚀 Introducing SoftMimic: Compliant humanoids for an interactive future — bringing humanoids into the real world 🤝 🔗 Current humanoids collapse when they touch the world — they can’t handle contact or deviation from their reference motion 😭 😎SoftMimic learns to deviate gracefully from motion references. It natively embraces... contact and forces — enabling safer, more robust robots that generalize better and interact gently. Work led by Gabe Margolis Michelle and Nolan Feyshow more

impressive

😍Unlike today's stiff humanoids, soft mimic is robust to unexpected collisions 🔗

🤩Using the same motion reference, soft mimic picks up boxes of different sizes -- free generalization! 🔗

🙀🤯Soft mimic is extremely robust while still being safe and doing what you want the robot to do. 🔗

🥳Soft mimic is compliant enabling gentle interactions 🔗

🤯🤩Soft mimic can be quickly programmed for new tasks, zero-shot 🔗

It has invisible lats syndrome

Very cool results. Congrats!

Impressive work! Isn't it learning the 'admittance control'?

yes

cool！

Amazing

Would love to see code on this, but this is the most practical way to real scalability. Also minimum requirements for Kung Fu

Super cool!

So nice

Awesome work 🦾

Very cool work! Similar to the goals of FALCON, but within a motion tracking context, I like it

In the real world, true success lies in not falling over from bumps and touches, and SoftMimic has nailed this point. How easy is it to deploy this framework on robots like Unitree or Digit? 😌

The future depends on robots.