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Robot simulation is getting a big upgrade! 🔥 Normally, building a simulation environment, a kitchen, warehouse, office takes days or weeks. You have to model the geometry, add textures, set lighting, generate collision meshes… all before a robot can even interact with it. Marble by World Labs removes most...

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Evaluating robot policies is hard. Ideally, instead of testing every new policy on a real robot, you could test in simulation; but simulations rarely correlate well with real-world performance. In order to make good, useful simulations, you need to spend a great deal of time and effort. That’s where PolaRiS comes in: it’s a toolkit that lets you take a short video of a real scene and turn it into a high-fidelity simulation. It provides what you need to build a good evaluation environment, and it “ships” with off-the-shelf environments that already show strong sim-to-real correlation, meaning that they can be used to inform policy performance. Arhan Jain and Karl Pertsch join us to talk about what they have built, why, and how you can use it. Watch Episode #62 of RoboPapers, with Chris Paxton and Jiafei Duan, now!

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🧍 Very cool idea So I added it to Photo AI as a T-Pose photo pack you can use to create a moving (or dancing) 3d model of yourself It auto-generates the correct T-Pose of your model immediately and then converts it into a 3D model you can download (as .fbx) and instantly import into @mixamo to rig it After rigging you can add any movement from Mixamo to move it however you want

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139,521 views • 6 months ago

Humanoid robots that can barely grab a cup after 7th attempt. Meanwhile: specialized robots that have been dominating their specific task since 2008. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Humanoid robots that can barely grab a cup after 7th attempt. Meanwhile: specialized robots that have been dominating their specific task since 2008. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

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