DVIDIA task environments v0.2
Build a small, reproducible practice environment before training a skill. This preview adds several object instances, an open bin, explicit local OpenUSD, native PiPER physics and a completion check that considers the whole object. The local editor and Terminal commands use the same recipe and native runner.
The browser edits a draft and replays recorded native physics. Simulation runs in the local Python process; the browser does not run a physics engine. The arm holds its home commands during these environment checks. This release does not train a placement policy or infer motor actions from a human video.
Install the preview
Use Python 3.12 and a fresh virtual environment. Install the wheel from the task environment release with its optional USD/native dependencies:
python3.12 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install './dvidia_training-0.1.3.dev2-py3-none-any.whl[usd]'
dvidia-robot-sim fetch piper --output robot-assets
dvidia-environment studio --assets robot-assets --output local-scenes
Open the displayed http://127.0.0.1:8346/ address. Select an object, drag it in
the table plane or edit its metric position, then run a preview. Invalid layouts
are explained before stepping physics. Export/import the recipe to share a
layout. Run outputs, including incomplete attempts, stay in local-scenes.
Stop the server with Ctrl-C. It binds only to loopback and accepts no remote
credentials, uploaded Python or robot commands. After dependencies and pinned
robot assets are installed, these native runs need no network service.
Physics runs on CPU without CUDA. The browser needs WebGL2, JavaScript and DecompressionStream; integrated graphics are sufficient for our tested preview. The tested host is Apple arm64 with Python 3.12.9, NumPy 2.5.3, MuJoCo 3.15.0 and OpenUSD 26.11. Other operating systems and hardware minima are not qualified. For planning, allow several GB for the Python environment and verified robot assets. Timings are shared-host measurements, not hard real-time guarantees.
Run the same workflow in Terminal
dvidia-environment init --output my-scene
cp my-scene/recipe.json draft.json
# Edit draft.json; the original authored scene remains unchanged.
dvidia-environment validate --recipe draft.json
dvidia-environment author --recipe draft.json --output edited-scene
dvidia-environment run --recipe edited-scene/recipe.json --assets robot-assets --output my-run
dvidia-environment export --study my-run --output my-viewer
python -m http.server 8000 --directory my-viewer --bind 127.0.0.1
Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to inspect the saved native motion. Output commands
refuse existing destinations. workstation.usda is deterministically authored
from the recipe and re-read with the real USD SDK before native compilation;
editing the USD without changing the recipe causes rejection. This is a bounded
recipe compiler, not an arbitrary USD or NVIDIA asset importer.
What the recipe means
All distances use metres, masses kilograms, angles radians and quaternions wxyz.
Z points up, gravity is 9.81 m/s² downward, physics steps every 1 ms, and robot
control boundaries are 20 ms. Object positions refer to their bottom centre;
the bin position refers to its outside bottom centre. Sizes are full XYZ
dimensions. Contact properties are explicitly labelled authored_assumption.
- One pinned six-axis PiPER with its coupled parallel gripper and seven controls.
- A horizontal static tabletop with its upper surface at Z=0.
- One open-top bin built from a floor and four separate wall colliders.
- One to four rigid objects: boxes or an original stepped-box shoe surrogate.
- Versioned source, catalog and robot asset locks, with exact USD byte identity.
Validation rejects duplicate IDs, nonfinite or unsupported fields, overlapping initial object/bin colliders, table overhangs and objects that cannot fit upright inside the bin. It allows an explicitly bounded initial drop. It does not prove collision-free arm reachability, grasp feasibility or a safe insertion path. The bin remains static. Shoe geometry and mass distribution are synthetic; deformation, fragile shells and measured material properties remain separate.
What counts as completed
For every object, every corner of every collision piece must fit in the rotated bin interior. The object must contact the bin floor, have no robot or gripper contact and stay below the recipe's linear/angular speed limits for the entire dwell interval. All required objects must pass together. The default dwell is 250 ms; bounded contact penetration permits a declared 1 mm floor tolerance. Time reversals, observation gaps and invalid native states clear history and remain explicitly unknown.
This verifier reads native ground truth for simulation evaluation. It is not a camera estimator and is not supplied to a robot as an unmeasured sensor. Likewise, a passive object settling in a bin is an environment fixture, not a learned robotic placement. Later training can use this contract to evaluate executed actions without relying on whether an image merely looks finished.
Reproduce the frozen checks
dvidia-environment benchmark prepare --output scene-study
dvidia-environment benchmark run --output scene-study --assets robot-assets
dvidia-environment export --study scene-study --output study-viewer
Preparation fixes source identities, thresholds, case roster and inputs before execution. A run writes an intent and attempt evidence; it refuses to repeat an already started study. Interrupted attempts remain incomplete, never silently retried or counted as successful. The registered study separates accepted completion fixtures, negative completion controls and rejected layout inputs. Their agreement rate is not a robot skill success rate.
Toward video-to-skill training
A video can propose object identities, relationships and a destination. To turn that into a useful training environment we must also recover metric scale, camera/robot frames, contact mechanics and the actual action history. This release supplies the bounded scene and independent evaluation portion. The next learning experiment needs causal object pose estimates and corrective action demonstrations, then held-out start positions and perturbations. It should beat the fixed controller before becoming an installable skill.
Original DVIDIA code, authored scenes and synthetic rigid assets: MIT. Pinned PiPER assets retain their MIT notices; Three.js and other dependencies retain their licenses. No new learned model weights are published with this study. DVIDIA research · @iammrriver · hello@dvidia.org.