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Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

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Re: Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

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The videos seem to have strong control flavour. What's the hook for AI researchers?

Gait control is widely recognized as on-topic in AI robotics circles.

There are sessions on this topic at the main conferences, for example.

Re: Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

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This is cool. I've been working on a quadrupedal robot. I wonder if some of these tools would help me visualize and develop gaits for the robot? It looks like they would.

You could also try out pybullet, the official Python bindings for Bullet Physics which uses the same underpinnings as Roboschool: pip install pybullet and you are up and running, quickstart guide is at http://pybullet.org. It has a Minitaur quadruped robot as one of the examples.

Re: Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation

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Good. Dynamic datasets for next gen AI. I think simulation is going to be essential for the AI of the future: physical 3D simulation, game simulation (like AlphaGo, which run MCMC) and ultimately, complex scene with multiple human and non-human agents (self driving cars, robots, chat bots). The era of ImageNet and static data is over.
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