Royce Reinger

Royce Reinger

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Pymanoid: Humanoid robotics prototyping environment based on OpenRAVE

Pymanoid

Humanoid robotics controller prototyping environment based on OpenRAVE.

Features

Whole-body inverse kinematics

 

  • Check out 🟣 Pink for a next-generation implementation of this IK as a library 📚
  • Based on a weight-prioritized multi-task formulation of differential IK
  • Jacobians and Hessians for center of mass (CoM) and angular momentum tasks

Contact stability

Model predictive control

Use cases

Getting started

Installation

The following instructions were verified on Ubuntu 14.04:

sudo apt-get install cython libglpk-dev python python-dev python-pip python-scipy python-simplejson
  • Install the LP solver: CVXOPT_BUILD_GLPK=1 pip install cvxopt --user
  • Install the QP solver: pip install quadprog --user
  • For polyhedral computations (optional): pip install pycddlib --user

Finally, clone this repository and run the setup script:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/stephane-caron/pymanoid.git
cd pymanoid
python setup.py build
python setup.py install --user

Optional

For nonlinear numerical optimization, you will need to install CasADi, preferably from source with the MA27 linear solver.

Citing pymanoid

I developed pymanoid during my PhD studies and share it in the hope it can be useful to others. If it helped you in your research, please use the following BibTeX template to cite it in scientific discourse:

@phdthesis{caron2016thesis,
    title = {Computational Foundation for Planner-in-the-Loop Multi-Contact Whole-Body Control of Humanoid Robots},
    author = {Caron, St{\'e}phane},
    year = {2016},
    month = jan,
    school = {The University of Tokyo},
    url = {https://scaron.info/papers/thesis.pdf},
    doi = {10.15083/00074003},
}

Download Details:

Author: Stephane-caron
Source Code: https://github.com/stephane-caron/pymanoid 
License: GPL-3.0 license

#machinelearning #python #robotics 

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Pymanoid: Humanoid robotics prototyping environment based on OpenRAVE
Royce Reinger

Royce Reinger

1679013240

Pymanoid: Humanoid robotics prototyping environment based on OpenRAVE

Pymanoid

Humanoid robotics controller prototyping environment based on OpenRAVE.

Features

Whole-body inverse kinematics

 

  • Check out 🟣 Pink for a next-generation implementation of this IK as a library 📚
  • Based on a weight-prioritized multi-task formulation of differential IK
  • Jacobians and Hessians for center of mass (CoM) and angular momentum tasks

Contact stability

Model predictive control

Use cases

Getting started

Installation

The following instructions were verified on Ubuntu 14.04:

sudo apt-get install cython libglpk-dev python python-dev python-pip python-scipy python-simplejson
  • Install the LP solver: CVXOPT_BUILD_GLPK=1 pip install cvxopt --user
  • Install the QP solver: pip install quadprog --user
  • For polyhedral computations (optional): pip install pycddlib --user

Finally, clone this repository and run the setup script:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/stephane-caron/pymanoid.git
cd pymanoid
python setup.py build
python setup.py install --user

Optional

For nonlinear numerical optimization, you will need to install CasADi, preferably from source with the MA27 linear solver.

Citing pymanoid

I developed pymanoid during my PhD studies and share it in the hope it can be useful to others. If it helped you in your research, please use the following BibTeX template to cite it in scientific discourse:

@phdthesis{caron2016thesis,
    title = {Computational Foundation for Planner-in-the-Loop Multi-Contact Whole-Body Control of Humanoid Robots},
    author = {Caron, St{\'e}phane},
    year = {2016},
    month = jan,
    school = {The University of Tokyo},
    url = {https://scaron.info/papers/thesis.pdf},
    doi = {10.15083/00074003},
}

Download Details:

Author: Stephane-caron
Source Code: https://github.com/stephane-caron/pymanoid 
License: GPL-3.0 license

#machinelearning #python #robotics 

Mathias Murazik

Mathias Murazik

1604142000

Consider This: Theomorphic Robots; Not Losing Our Religion?

As icons and rituals adapt to newer technologies, the rise of robotics and AI can change the way we practice and experience spirituality.

**Some 100,000 years ago, fifteen people, eight of them children, were buried on the flank of [Mount Precipice], just outside the southern edge of [Nazareth] in today’s Israel. **One of the boys still held the antlers of a large red deer clasped to his chest, while a teenager lay next to a necklace of seashells painted with ochre and brought from the Mediterranean Sea shore 35 km away. The bodies of Qafzeh are some of the earliest evidence we have of grave offerings, possibly associated with religious practice.

Although some type of _belief _has likely accompanied us from the beginning, it’s not until 50,000–13,000 BCE that we see clear religious ideas take shape in paintings, offerings, and objects.** This is a period filled with Venus figurines, statuettes made of stone, bone, ivory and clay, portraying women with small heads, wide hips, and exaggerated breasts.** It is also the home of the beautiful** lion man**, carved out of mammoth ivory with a flint stone knife and the oldest-known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world.

We’ve unearthed such representations of primordial gods, likely our first religious icons, all across Europe and as far as Siberia, and although we’ll never be able to ask their creators why they made them, we somehow still feel a connection with the stories they were trying to tell.

#robotics #artificial-intelligence #psychology #technology #hackernoon-top-story #religious-robots #robot-priest #robot-monk

Teresa Jerde

Teresa Jerde

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Who’s At Fault When Robots Kill?

Up to now, any robots brushing with the law were always running strictly according to their code. Fatal accidents and serious injuries usually only happened through human misadventure or improper use of safety systems and barriers. We’ve yet to truly test how our laws will cope with the arrival of more sophisticated automation technology — but that day isn’t very far away.

AI already infiltrates our lives on so many levels in a multitude of practical, unseen ways. While the machine revolution is fascinating — and will cause harm to humans here and there — embodied artificial intelligence systems perhaps pose the most significant challenges for lawmakers.

Robots that run according to unchanging code are one thing and have caused many deaths and accidents over the years — not just in the factory but the operating theatre too. Machines that learn as they go are a different prospect entirely — and coming up with laws for dealing with that is likely to be a gradual affair.

Emergent robot behavior and the blame game

Emergent behavior is going to make robots infinitely more effective and useful than they’ve ever been before. The potential danger with emergent behavior is that it’s unpredictable. In the past, robots got programmed for set tasks – and that was that. Staying behind the safety barrier and following established protocols kept operators safe.

#artificial-intelligence #robots #robotics #legal #blame-the-user #blame-the-maker #blame-the-robot

Madilyn Kihn

Madilyn Kihn

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Prototypal Inheritance — The second pillar of Javascript

All you need to know about Prototypal Inheritance — The second pillar of Javascript
What we will learn here will help us understand Object-oriented programming(OOP).

#javascript #prototyping #prototype #prototype-chain #js

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As cryptocurrency enthusiasts, we’re sometimes divided on which digital assets to buy — bullish on certain projects and bearish on others.

But we all agree on one thing, which is that the overall cryptocurrency industry will achieve long-term growth and future adoption.

The Base Protocol makes it possible to invest with this consensus. BASE allows traders to speculate on the entire industry with one token.

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The Base Protocol is the world’s first and only tokenized cryptocurrency market tracker. By holding BASE tokens, users can get exposure to the performance of the entire cryptocurrency market. Unlike the index trackers currently operating in the traditional markets, there is no entry or exit fee or brokerage charges.

Index funds have consistently outperformed actively managed mutual funds. Until the launch of BASE, there was no real cryptocurrency market tracker that tracked the performance of the entire digital asset market. BASE will be useful for institutional investors and traders to diversify and hedge their crypto portfolios. BASE will also help new and existing retail investors to take out the guesswork and get exposed to the growth of all current and future digital assets entering the market.

The BASE token’s underlying protocol creates several additional use cases in DeFi, trading, venture capital, hedge funds and many other business sectors.

The Base Protocol mission is simple — to make it easy for everyone to benefit from the performance of the entire cryptocurrency market in a secure, decentralized and future-proof way.

Why BASE?

It’s no doubt that a crypto industry ETF would be a valuable product for investors. But it is very challenging to create such a product through traditional means, as it would be almost impossible to manage portfolio ownership of 5,000+ assets. How would the portfolio manager weigh ownership of each asset as market cap dominance changes? How would they account for newly entering/exiting assets? Who would take on all the associated transaction and custodial fees? There are also various legal limitations that restrict the formation of such an instrument in many countries — and even if it could be formed, it would be a highly centralized product.

By simply pegging price to the total market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies, the Base Protocol cuts through all of these problems. BASE gives holders the same function as a traditional industry ETF without all of the centralized challenges that make such an ETF impossible.

BASE will offer new value for investors in the cryptocurrency ecosystem through an elegantly simple protocol — so valuable and so simple that you might be asking yourself:

How has this not been done before?

The answer is that it wasn’t possible until recently. This project couldn’t be achieved without a robust decentralized blockchain, proven oracle integrations, and new developments in the DeFi space. We founded the Base Protocol to build on these innovations and create BASE; one tokenized asset that represents speculation on all cryptocurrencies.

Vision

We’ve seen that there are many individuals who want to invest in cryptocurrencies, but don’t necessarily understand how they work. While the overview for each different crypto asset can be difficult to understand for a new user, the pitch for BASE is simple: it’s the way to invest in all of those crypto assets simultaneously. In this way, the Base Protocol can become an instrumental force in driving new adoption in the blockchain space.

We’ve also noticed that institutional investors have been introducing cryptocurrency investments to their portfolios. These institutions typically invest at a high level with great diversification covering multiple industries. Their cryptocurrency holdings are usually composed of just Bitcoin, or some handful mix of “blue chip” digital assets. By holding BASE, these institutions will gain exposure to the entire cryptocurrency industry — an objectively more diversified alternative.

In the same way that Bitcoin is the household name of cryptocurrencies, the Base Protocol aims to become the household name for general cryptocurrency investing. BASE’s vision is to become the primary channel of investment for new/existing cryptocurrency traders and institutional investors.

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