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Another robot from Disney! 🕺🏻 Just look at this dancing fella created by Disney Research. Creating control policies that work on real robots and handling diverse, unseen motions in physics-based character control is still difficult. The Disney team proposes a two-state solution. The first step involves learning a latent space encoding with an autoencoder. After encoding, the policy is trained to map kinematic input to dynamic output, ensuring accurate and adaptable movement. This method eliminates common mode collapse issues and improves motion encoding by separating these stages. This technique has proven effective in real robots in simulations, marking a significant leap forward in robot control. Can't wait for it in action live in 2025 :) ~~~ RT to help 1 robot find a new workplace.

Robots in the space! 🪐 It's a natural direction for robots — unmanned, hard-to-access places like space. A Japanese startup working on space robots has received $15 million more money (back in August 2023) to continue developing lunar technology. The lunar robotic rover "R1" from GITAI has been designed to perform various general-purpose tasks on the moon, such as exploration, mining, and inspection. There are plans to build a rover for the moon and they will also be building a special robotic arm for space jobs such as installing things on the moon. They even have plans to test this arm on the International Space Station! 🛰️ ~~~ ♻️ RT to help 1 robot find a new workplace.