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Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures

Goatstream · demo · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

A 2013 research demo of simulated bipedal creatures whose natural gaits are found by optimizing muscle-based controllers, with no motion capture or keyframe animation. It shows physics-based walking and running emerging from musculoskeletal models.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as an earlier, smoother precedent whenever new learned-locomotion or simulated-walking work appears.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Which made me revisit this classic”

    A classic of simulated creatures learning to move.

    npilk, 2021-04 · Recommendation · in “Discovering Diverse Athletic Jumping Strategies”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: physics simulation, muscle model, bipedal walking, character animation, optimization

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