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[taylor howell @taylorhowell]

my @DeepMind project is out!
MuJoCo MPC (MJPC) is an interactive tool for real-time behavior synthesis with predictive control algorithms.
paper: https://t.co/Pqxn34c3pC
code: https://t.co/YMQrijc7sk
video: https://t.co/3j7CGejCew

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Really excited to see the creativity and community engagement around mjlab 😍

Here’s a thread of what people are building 🧵👇

[Yuval Tassa @yuvaltassa]

MuJoCo 3.5 is out, including the official MJWarp release, a new sysID toolbox and lots of other goodies!

https://t.co/8yEfvoJJ9t

[taylor howell @taylorhowell]

first waymo ride

[taylor howell @taylorhowell]

f a s h i o n

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Happy Monday! We just added raycast sensors to mjlab. They let a robot sample the scene with virtual rays, returning distances and surface geometry. Rays can use orthographic projection for terrain scanning or perspective projection for simulating a depth camera.

[taylor howell @taylorhowell]

here we go

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Ever wanted to simulate an entire house in MuJoCo or a very cluttered kitchen? Well now you can with the newly introduced sleeping islands: groups of stationary bodies that drop out of the physics pipeline until disturbed. Check out Yuval's amazing video and documentation 👇

[Yuval Tassa @yuvaltassa]

MuJoCo now supports sleeping islands!

https://t.co/LWqZ0dRGQn
https://t.co/EThtiDRm6C

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

We open-sourced the full pipeline! Data conversion from MimicKit, training recipe, pretrained checkpoint, and deployment instructions.

Train your own spin kick with mjlab:
https://t.co/KvNQn0Edzr

[Carolina Parada @parada_car88104]

Absolutely thrilled and honored to be working on defining the future of Robotics and bring AGI in the physical world at @GoogleDeepMind 🧠🦾✨❤️

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

I'm super excited to announce mjlab today!

mjlab = Isaac Lab's APIs + best-in-class MuJoCo physics + massively parallel GPU acceleration

Built directly on MuJoCo Warp with the abstractions you love.

[Carolina Parada @parada_car88104]

📣 #MuJoCo Announcement 📣 : MuJoCo Warp is now available in MJX for all MuJoCo Playground environments, achieving up to 2x speedup in more complex contact-rich scenes. Check it out and have fun!

@GoogleDeepMind Robotics

https://t.co/5zDpLfln5N

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re making robots more capable than ever in the physical world. 🤖

Gemini Robotics 1.5 is a levelled up agentic system that can reason better, plan ahead, use digital tools such as @Google Search, interact with humans and much more. Here’s how it works 🧵

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

The ultimate test of any physics simulator is its ability to deliver real-world results.

With MuJoCo Playground, we’ve combined the very best: MuJoCo’s rich and thriving ecosystem, massively parallel GPU-accelerated simulation, and real-world results across a diverse range of robot platforms: quadrupeds, humanoids, dexterous hands, and arms.

Best of all? You can get started today with a single command: pip install playground

https://t.co/t6pZCNeOSK

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Center-of-mass regulation + feet/hands on the G1 humanoid.

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Differential inverse kinematics controller on a Go1 quadruped regulating the pose of the root body and the position of the feet.

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

MuJoCo 3.1.6 has just been released! MJX now comes with out-of-the-box support for height fields. Check out this joystick policy that @the_real_btaba trained (~2M steps per second on an A100).

Colab to reproduce: https://t.co/XSTQ2n7xgn

[Kevin Zakka @kevin_zakka]

Pretty happy with the new gallery in the MuJoCo Menagerie README 😁

[Yuval Tassa @yuvaltassa]

Easily replicate elements in MuJoCo models. The scene files in the video are both short and readable.

Three Bowls: 45 lines.
Newton's cradle: 70 lines.
Stonehenge: 40 lines.

https://t.co/2CM4ujCUHw

[Fauna Robotics @faunarobotics]

At Fauna Robotics, we are creating a world where human and robotic fauna coexist, collaborate, and flourish together. 🌿🤖 Our founding team has deep backgrounds in robotics, shipping products, and company building. We're hiring across research, design, and eng roles in NYC.