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🤖 AI Learning Companion

Agent Skills:

High-Fidelity Rendering in Unity

Human-Robot Interaction​

While Gazebo is great for physics, Unity excels at visual fidelity and human interaction. For a humanoid robot to learn to interact with people, it needs to perceive realistic human avatars and environments.

Unity Robotics Hub​

We will use the Unity Robotics Hub, which provides tools to:

  1. URDF Importer: Import your robot description directly into Unity.
  2. ROS-TCP-Connector: A bridge that allows Unity to publish and subscribe to ROS 2 topics over TCP.

Setup Architecture​

graph LR
    A[ROS 2 Node] -- TCP --> B[ROS-TCP-Endpoint]
    B -- TCP --> C[Unity Scene]
    C -- Sensor Data --> B
    B -- Sensor Data --> A

Simulating Social Cues​

In Unity, we can script human avatars to perform gestures, speak, and move.

  • Animation Controllers: Trigger animations (waving, pointing) based on robot actions.
  • Proximity Triggers: Detect when the robot enters a "personal space" zone.