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SUMMARY:Let's dance! – Teaching your robot some moves with reinforcement le
	arning
DTSTAMP:20260430T144231Z
DTSTART:20260522T114500Z
DESCRIPTION:Description:\nHas this ever happened to you: You just spent €50
	\,000 on a humanoid robot\, but it's not very fun at parties\, so you have
	 to train it to dance using reinforcement learning in a simulation environ
	ment on your €100\,000 GPU cluster? What do you mean "no"?\n\nIn this talk
	\, Thomas Endres and David Winderl will teach you how you can train your h
	umanoid robot to dance using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in simulation env
	ironments. They're gonna kick things off with an introduction into RL\, co
	vering the basics of policies and rewards. After that\, they’ll take you t
	hrough your first steps in simulation environments with the introduction o
	f NVIDIA Isaac Sim and the Unitree RL Lab. Our speakers will run through t
	he steps of shaping a walking policy\, one hilarious fall at a time. Final
	ly\, they're going to shake things up with a dancing policy: You will lear
	n how you can retarget human motion from videos to the Unitree G1 robot an
	d train an imitation policy that can dance just as poorly as you. \n\nThro
	ughout the talk\, the speakers will do a live training of a walking policy
	 on stage\, starting early on in the presentation and checking up on the p
	rogress from time to time. For the grande finale\, our humanoid robot will
	 close the session with a dancing performance\, not missing out on a singl
	e step.\n--------------------------------\n\nSpeaker:\n- Thomas Endres\n- 
	David Winderl\n\n--------------------------------\n\nTalk details:\n- Link
	 to the Big Techday website: https://bigtechday.com/en/talks#4VMOAwsTvFaDK
	IwR8AYif3\n
LOCATION:Kohlebunker II
DURATION:PT50M
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