Many of you may be familiar with Evan Atherton as an award-winning filmmaker:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bK7FUWIvuE]
Filmmaking is just a hobby for Evan. For his day job, Evan uses his mechanical engineering degree as an applied researcher at our Pier 9 technology center in San Francisco. Evan’s been working with Autodesk Maya and robots.
There are very few ways to program and interact with industrial robot arms. One of our driving goals is to create more intuitive and flexible tools for robotic control that open up their use to a broader community (i.e., architecture, construction, art, etc.) and make programming more efficient for traditional users.
Mimic is a plug-in for Maya that gives users easy and direct control of 6-axis industrial robots via Maya’s built-in animation tools. It allows the user to pick from the eight different IK configurations, and switch between Inverse and Forward Kinematics. It is fully immersed in the Maya ecosystem, so the user…