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RobotMDM, by Disney Research, combines diffusion-based motion generation with RL to produce physics-aware humanoid motions from text prompts. Trained on human motion data with a reward surrogate for physical feasibility, it ensures realistic motions.

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Robot Motion Diffusion Model (RobotMDM) Full video by Disney Research:

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disney research is amazing this is some cutting edge stuff many robotics companies could learn a thing or two from disney

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