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Towards Embodied AI with MuscleMimic: Unlocking full-body musculoskeletal motor learning at scale
Learn about MuscleMimic, a JAX framework for scalable, physiologically realistic musculoskeletal motor learning. This talk explores human-like movement under full muscular control for embodied AI research.
MuscleMimic is an open-source, JAX-based framework for scalable motion imitation learning with physiologically realistic muscle-actuated humanoids. It provides validated musculoskeletal embodiments, including a 126-muscle upper-body model for bimanual manipulation and a 416-muscle full-body model for locomotion, together with motion-retargeting pipelines, pretrained checkpoints, datasets, and GPU-parallel training tools for learning human-like movement under full muscular control. By lowering the computational barrier to biomechanically accurate motor learning, MuscleMimic enables research at the intersection of embodied AI, reinforcement learning, biomechanics, neuroscience, robotics, and human movement science.
Repo: https://github.com/amathislab/musclemimic
Hugging Face playground: https://huggingface.co/spaces/amathislab/musclemimic_space
MuscleMimic scales musculoskeletal motor learning using AMASS and SMPL-H.
MuscleMimic: open-source framework for scalable musculoskeletal humanoid motion imitation.
Hugging Face space hosting Docker-based multi-agent muscle simulation models.
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