Russ Tedrake

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Now that Drake has purged scipy, we should, too. It is used only by the `shooting_vs_transcription` problem.

they seem to have been copied everywhere, even when they are not needed.

and is currently disabled as a local test. need to using `running_as_notebook` and not make long animations for testing. @dclee131

We are currently paying a heavy price in load time with every youtube video that is included. What's worse, we appear to pay this price even on the chapters that...

In order to keep existing actuator indices valid, MultibodyTree replaces the actuator in the list with nullptr. As a result, we must also introduce new supporting api: for checking if...

priority: medium
release notes: feature

I've been seeing _many_ students confused by the fact that proximity engine often uses the convex hull of the geometry. Here are two recent examples: ![image](https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake/assets/6442292/3bf499db-45a5-45be-866b-cff217359f00) ![image](https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake/assets/6442292/5853cd75-bc74-4f47-845b-50b14cfc92c9) Everyone loves being...

priority: high
component: geometry illustration

Resolves #20699. I still need to write more tests, but I hope this gets you unstuck @cohnt and @shrutigarg914 . - - - This change is [](https://reviewable.io/reviews/RobotLocomotion/drake/21093)

priority: low
status: do not review
release notes: feature

This is one simple feature that we're missing in the jupyter (e.g. colab/binder) workflow. We have it for `meldis` (with `ConnectContactResultsToDrakeVisualizer`) and for `meshcat`.

type: feature request
priority: medium
component: geometry illustration

### What happened? ``` % bazel build --config=apple_debug //solvers/... ``` fails with ``` ERROR: /private/var/tmp/_bazel_russt/9c100c86c1cc4c543d01c45f7a63d5c6/external/nlopt_internal/BUILD.bazel:197:11: Compiling src/algs/stogo/stogo.cc failed: undeclared inclusion(s) in rule '@nlopt_internal//:stogo': this rule is missing dependency declarations for...

type: bug
priority: low
configuration: mac
component: build system

Clarifies that the output of the inverse dynamics controller is actuation input, not generalized forces, and uses the actuation matrix to achieve this. Previously, by connecting the output of the...

priority: medium
release notes: fix