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Realistic secondary motion automatically breathes life into rig animations... but it's super slow to compute 🐌🐢😩 Our recent work, which will be presented at #SIGGRAPH2023, proposes a subspace based on linear blend skinning to accelerate simulation!

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The hill I will die on: STEM grad programs MUST teach PhD students how to communicate their science to the public and legislators alike. This is 💯 not a drill.

地面に合わせて形状が変化する車輪 階段や岩などの障害物も簡単に乗り越える youtu.be/zLyfYy3-P50 #morphing #wheel #robot #mobility #logistics #KIMM

Practicing on some quadruped locomotion's Rig from @KielFiggins #animation #gamedev #3d #3danimation #game

So happy to share that I have successfully defended my Ph. D. thesis today! Super grateful for my time at @mcgillu, my advisor @DerekRenderling and the amazing opportunities I’ve had throughout the years. Onto the next adventure! 🫡

歩くロボットハンド (若干いたずら好き?) youtu.be/w3cvE8jtxuw #robotichand #raptorhousefx #animatronics #robotics #practicaleffects #engineering #specialeffects #filmmaking #BehindTheScenes #Adam #Tested

@flackospalace @taraxrh Lo

@taraxrh The environment they grew up around enables this behaviour they get hit with a reality check the second they go across the world

israelis underestimate how often they will eventually be treated like they were in amsterdam

We are excited to share that Fatemeh Zargarbashi will present her recent paper "Robot Keyframing: Learning Locomotion with High-Level Objectives via Mixture of Dense and Sparse Rewards," at the upcoming CoRL 2024 @corl_conf.

Congratulations to Ellen Rumley on successfully defending her Ph.D.! 🎓🥳 Ellen made a memorable impression as the first graduate from our Robotic Materials Department, dressed in impressive armor reminiscent of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and symbol of @maxplanckpress!

Most Torontoians are multimodal - using transit, cycling, Uber, walking or driving - as the circumstance allows. The Province is spending billions to accelerate regional sprawl - knowing full well that those cars end up clogging city streets. In addition - they are enveloped in a billion dollar transit boondoggle with an entire LRT system built, mostly in a tunnel below ground, sitting empty and unused. Blaming cyclists for congestion is flat-earther type public policy. Disconnected from reality.

Sometimes I feel like quitting robotics and become a normie web developer. How tf am I supposed to debug this.

There has been significant recent interest in methods that use random walks to solve PDEs. In a project to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia (w/Ekrem Yılmazer and @DelioVicini), we investigated how to solve *inverse PDE* problems by differentiating such solvers.

As the author of this PDF, it's been interesting seeing people guess at the rationale behind its design. However, the rationale had nothing to do with theory vs practice, and everything to do with pragmatically coping with an unaccommodated disability in academia. (1/16)

I swear I have all the joint limit + torque limit implemented, simulated at 200Hz and control runs at 50Hz 🫠

In 2023-2024, our Professor Mark Pauly welcomed two artists in his lab. Their collaboration resulted into scientific projects and into an exhibition, which will be opened today at 6pm at @EPFLPavilions. @EPFLcdh actu.epfl.ch/news/we-want-t…

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had a couple of people asked me about how I did Sammi's face, so want to show her face rig I made. I first modeled out her eye and made shapekeys for each expression, then linked them all to drivers and made a little control panel for it.

The NVIDIA HiFi Physics team is looking for interns with interest/skills in 1⃣ Physics simulation (solids/fluids/differentiable etc) 2⃣ Digital Humans 3⃣ Neural Rendering/Geometry, Video Models 4⃣ Monte Carlo Methods 5⃣ Digital Fabrication Apply: nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAEx…

What if you could make physics diagrams come alive? At #UIST2024, we will be presenting our paper, Augmented Physics, an ML-Integrated Authoring Tool for Creating Interactive Physics Simulations from Static Diagrams Co-authors: @Freya_Wyy @nandizhang_ Jarin @rubaiat @ryosuzk

#blender hum...🤔