MuJoCo physics engine

MuJoCo is a virtual environment that simulates real physical environments for testing intelligent algorithms. It's the environment that the leading AI researchers at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and others use to teach virtual robots tasks, virtual humans, and spiders to run, among other tasks. Google in particular made quite a splash in the news in 2017 when they published a video of a virtual human that taught itself to run and jump based on reinforcement learning techniques:

MuJoCo is a paid licensed program, but they allow for 30-day free trials which we will use to complete our tasks. If you are a student, you can obtain ...

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