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Building generative models for motion synthesis or control Experimenting with humanoids, robot arms, exoskeletons and dexterous hands Training virtual agents using RL and transfer to real robots Collecting data with different motion capture systems Pre-training or fine-tuning VLMs for policy development Developing and using multibody simulators Designing and building 3D-printable humanoids Solving both convex and non-convex optimization problems [...] #### Humanoid Robotic Foundation Mode

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Building generative models for motion synthesis or control Experimenting with humanoids, robot arms, exoskeletons and dexterous hands Training virtual agents using RL and transfer to real robots Collecting data with different motion capture systems Pre-training or fine-tuning VLM

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