Eamon F retweeted
Run your robot in simulation! 🖲️
📌 If you’re self-learning robotics, this is genuinely one to save for later.
This is next chapter of @NVIDIARobotics course "Getting Started with Isaac Sim" covering everything from building your first robot to hardware-in-the-loop deployment.
Today you will learn how to import, configure and... FINALLY simulate your cute robot.
Quick look what's inside:
→ Analyze URDF Structures: Examine URDF file structure and components to identify key elements like joints and links. This forms the basis for importing and configuring robots in Isaac Sim.
→ Apply the URDF Importer: Use Isaac Sim's URDF Importer to successfully import and simulate robot models. Set appropriate import options to ensure accurate representation and functionality.
→ Design Control Systems: Create control systems using differential controllers and keyboard control interfaces, enabling dynamic movement and interaction in the simulated environment.
→ Evaluate Physics Behavior: Assess simulated robot physics to identify and resolve issues like excessive velocity or incorrect joint configurations, ensuring realistic interactions.
→ Create Simulated Environments: Develop complete environments in Isaac Sim with robot models, appropriate physics and control settings, obstacles, and sensor configurations.
The module builds on previous foundations, preparing you for more advanced simulations and applications in the next module.
This is NVIDIA's structured approach to lowering the Isaac Sim learning curve. Most robotics teams have existing URDF files from their robot designs. Being able to import those directly into simulation without manual rebuilding accelerates iteration significantly.
See you next week!
Send this to your friend that wants to learn robotics! 💚
Here's the course (it's free): docs.nvidia.com/learning/phy…
~~
♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com
Eamon F retweeted
The world's smallest industrial robot arm
Built for sub-micrometer precision.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how to control what is likely the world’s smallest and most precise industrial robot arm using custom software.
The stack includes online and offline programming with simulation, an analytical kinematics solver, a singularity-aware trajectory planner, and an API layer for integration with external systems.
It’s designed for applications where positioning error is measured in micrometers, not millimeters. Microelectronics, semiconductor handling, photonics alignment, medical device assembly, lab automation.
When parts are tiny and tolerances are unforgiving, the control architecture matters as much as the mechanics.
This is from Oleksander Stepanenko (@olekstepanenko), if you don’t follow him and his YouTube channel… no one can help you.
——-
Weekly robotics and AI insights.
Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
Eamon F retweeted
On November 10, 1988, this grainy photo revealed a Skunk Works® secret. The F-117A Stealth fighter, later dubbed Nighthawk, had been secretly flying since 1981 and operational since 1983. It was the first combat aircraft to fully harness radar-evading stealth technology.
Eamon F retweeted
- culture that celebrates risk-taking
- ingrained hatred of bureaucracy
- robust capital markets
- Starbucks nitro cold brew
- cheap and abundant oil
- “you can just do stuff”
- investment bankers that work until 2 AM
- low barriers to entry for entrepreneurship
- cheap and abundant Zyn
- manifest destiny
- private equity
- Delaware C corporations
- freedom of speech
- air conditioning
- M&A markets
- interstate highway system
- meritocracy
- low capital gains taxes + QSBS exemption
- McDonalds
- incentives for getting shit done
- university Greek life system
- the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution
- New York City
- grocery stores that literally made Soviet politicians cry
- at-will employment
- Walmart
- everyone in the world speaks our language
- Mississippi River barge traffic
- GPU clusters
- ability to get filthy rich even if born poor
- pickup trucks
- state-school engineering programs
- SBA 7a loans
- Sand Hill Road
- Michael Jordan
- 50 states competing for business
- significantly more sunlight than Europe
- the Homestead Act of 1862
- old-school DARPA
- no union reps on corporate boards
- risk of dying poor even if born rich
- we don’t take the month of August off
- the entire state of Texas
- the smartest people in the world move here
- did I mention we despise bureaucracy?
Eamon F retweeted
Elon has shown us this week what the future looks like. Robovan and robotaxis, humanoid robotics, green parks instead of parking lots, tunnels, rockets that are fully reusable and chopstick shenanigans. All of it sci-fi, but greater, and here, and incredible.
Eamon F retweeted
We are emerging from a long period of collective forced demoralization, blinking in the sunlight of profound and ambitious achievement. 👀☀️
Eamon F retweeted
Elon is a key driving force in our civilizational ascension up the Kardashev scale.
There is simply no denying it.
Eamon F retweeted
Someone selling train tickets?
Nope.
This is just a video screen.
The actual video and audio is produced in real-time by AI.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is from an exhibition "Moscow 2030", comparing stations from a few decades ago against the current modernisation programme. The screen shows a pre-recorded loop, no AI is involved youtube.com/watch?v=5VK71t… irecommend.ru/content/esli-k…
Eamon F retweeted
We shared plans at #GoogleforIndia to manufacture Pixel smartphones locally and expect the first devices to roll out in 2024. We’re committed to being a trusted partner in India’s digital growth- appreciate the support for Make In India @PMOIndia + MEIT Minister @AshwiniVaishnaw.
Eamon F retweeted
Game Theory is more than just obscure equations, dimly remembered. It can now be used by today's Sourcing Software to allow both buyers and sellers to collaborate on solving the toughest sustainability challenges.
linkedin.com/pulse/its-win-w… via @LinkedIn
Eamon F retweeted
One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains
[source: buff.ly/3oAZuKP]
[read more: buff.ly/3VixkCM]
Eamon F retweeted
This might be the single most important article written in the past year.
My piece this week explores how a patchwork of Asian economies from Hokkaido to Gujarat stacks up as an alternative to China for global manufacturers.
Whether it works in practice is a test of both cross-border business and a nascent geopolitical order.
economist.com/business/2023/…
Eamon F retweeted
I mentor a young lad with poor literacy skills who is starting a landscaping business. He struggles to communicate with clients in a professional manner.
I created a GPT3-powered Gmail account to which he sends a message. It responds with the text to send to the client.
Eamon F retweeted
I know everyone thinks Hemingway has the ultimate Six Word Story, but may I present
(Via mltshp.com/p/1O1CE )
Eamon F retweeted
Congrats to the entire team! Great news!
I'm so proud and thrilled to announce that @SAP has been recognized as #Leader in the 2022 #Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises. @ChrstnKlein @thsaueressig @julwhite @ScottROfficial @JuerMueller 🙌 Thank you team #S4HANA
news.sap.com/2022/09/magic-q…
