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Skills in simulation

Every skill the motion tracker has learned, on the current 1.41 m model (RS10P arm motors, the rounded head). The solid robot is the trained policy; the translucent blue robot is the reference motion it follows (a human motion generated with Kimodo and retargeted to Marvin Bot). One policy plays all 25 clips: tracker v6, warm-started from the previous tracker (about 5,000 epochs on the 1.44 m model) and trained 1,800 more epochs on the current model, on Newton with 16,384 robots at once (about 3 hours on one GPU); every clip stays upright. Under each clip: the hands’ and feet’s mean distance from where the reference puts them, measured relative to the pelvis.

The clips are rendered with sim/motion/render_tracking.py; how they are made, trained and scored is in sim/motion/README.md. This is simulation only, though in two simulators: replayed in MuJoCo (sim/motion/replay_mujoco.py) with sensor noise and the motors’ torque-speed limits, every clip stays upright and the hands, feet and joints track as closely as in Newton, where it was trained. It has not run on hardware. The weakest skills are the arm-heavy ones (the two-hand wave, reach forward, clap, arms raise: hands 9–13 cm off), and the squat and pick-up stop 4.5 and 9 cm short of the reference’s lowest point. The arm motors are closest to their limits in the two-hand wave (the left shoulder yaw touches the RS10P’s 42 N·m peak) and the clap (the left shoulder roll at 78% of its rated torque, RMS).

Walk Walk slow Walk back
walk walk slow walk back
hands 4.2 cm, feet 5.5 cm hands 4.7 cm, feet 4.4 cm hands 5.4 cm, feet 4.2 cm
Jog March Start stop
jog march start stop
hands 4.1 cm, feet 6.1 cm hands 4.9 cm, feet 6.1 cm hands 3.6 cm, feet 4.8 cm
Carry walk Side left Side right
carry walk side left side right
hands 6.7 cm, feet 5.5 cm hands 6.2 cm, feet 5.3 cm hands 7.2 cm, feet 5.2 cm
Turn left Turn right Turn in place
turn left turn right turn in place
hands 4.7 cm, feet 4.6 cm hands 5.2 cm, feet 5.5 cm hands 2.6 cm, feet 6.4 cm
Kick Squat Pick up
kick squat pick up
hands 3.9 cm, feet 4.4 cm hands 6.8 cm, feet 5.6 cm hands 3.2 cm, feet 3.8 cm
Bow Dance sway Idle
bow dance sway idle
hands 3.6 cm, feet 4.3 cm hands 7.3 cm, feet 3.5 cm hands 2.9 cm, feet 4.4 cm
Look around
look around
hands 3.4 cm, feet 3.6 cm
Clap Wave Wave both
clap wave wave both
hands 8.8 cm, feet 3.8 cm hands 5.1 cm, feet 2.7 cm hands 12.8 cm, feet 5.2 cm
Point Reach forward Arms raise
point reach forward arms raise
hands 3.4 cm, feet 2.9 cm hands 9.7 cm, feet 4.8 cm hands 8.8 cm, feet 1.8 cm

This page is generated from docs/skills.md in the repository.