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- name: Exposed Torino Foto Festival
year: 2024
location: Turin
- name: Another Showcase Festival
year: 2025
location: Rome
credits:
Cailean: CT
Leon: Camera
Simone C Niquille: Scenography & Camera
Cailean Finn: Creative Technologist
Jeff Witscher, New Furniture Music & Pipe Dream: Music
Klankbeeld: Field Recordings
Voices: Oliver Lucas & Alexa, Amazon Echo
references:
- title: some-title
link: https://www.caileanfinn.ie
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For this work, I collaborated with Simone C Niquille as a Creative Technologist. In the process of creating Beauty and The Beep, the chair was trained using reinforcement learning alogrthims in the Unity game engine. The training process took inspiration from Boston Dynamic's approach in the training of their SpotMini, as well as tradiontional (DeepMimic)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vppFvq2quQ0] environments for Reinforcement Learning research. We chose to use Unity for this project, as it allowed us to work with the (ML-Agents Package)[https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ml-agents] - an experimental Reinforcement Learning framework, which wraps complex reinforcement learning algorithms/methods into components which are more acessible for developers. Even though this package has been forgotten by Unity, for the most part, working with a user-friendly game engine was key in creating simuated environments for the 🪑 to explore.
![Beauty and the Beep - Treadmill](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/d_beep_9.jpg "Beauty and the Beep - Treadmill")
![Beauty and the Beep - Dumb Objects](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/d_beep_8.jpg "Beauty and the Beep - Dumb Objects")
![Beauty and the Beep - Multiple Agents](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/beep_multiple_agents.png "Beauty and the Beep - Multiple Agents")
![Beauty and the Beep - Utah](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/d_beep_2.jpg "Beauty and the Beep - Utah")
<div style="padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/939037482?h=fabc477b89&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
__Early Experiments__
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/intial_experimentation_climbing.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/intial_experimentation_crawling.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/intial_experimentation_error.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/intial_experimentation_walk.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
__Depth Sensor__
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/depth_sensor.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
__Struggling Chair__
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/mid-struggle.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
__Final Training__
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/dm_scrambler.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/dm_walker.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/stairs.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/treadmill_flip.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")
![Beauty and the Beep - Training](/images/beauty-and-the-beep/gif/walking.gif "Beauty and the Beep - Training")