John Malaska

John Malaska is a senior product manager at NVIDIA, working on motion generation and retargeting for robotics and animation. He led the open-source release of MotionBricks and supports SOMA Retargeter. John enjoys connecting animation craft with robotics, helping bring human movement to humanoid robots. He holds a bachelor of fine arts from Pratt Institute.
John Malaska

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Robotics Nov 13, 2026

Adapt Human Motion for Robots with NVIDIA SOMA Retargeter

Human motion offers roboticists a great starting point for teaching humanoid robots how to move. A human demonstration captures the coordination and timing... 9 MIN READ