TORONTO -- Oregon State University students took one small step for robot marathon runners when their history-making bipedal bot went for a long-distance jog.
That means it taught itself to run – on legs that bend backwards like a bird's pronounced ankles – using what the school called "a deep reinforcement learning algorithm." It learned to make the subtle adjustments required to balance and stay upright while moving. Hurst led the project to develop Cassie under a 16-month, US$1-million grant from the U.S.'s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency starting in 2017. Since then, students at the university have explored how machine learning could change a robot’s performance.
Hurst said the five-kilometre run is just the start, and bipedal walking robots will one day be common, whether that's working in warehouses, delivering packages or helping people at home.
we will never leave here, only the robots, they will produce new improved men on a habitable planet
No it didn’t — that was programmin’ biotech
Good lord just make one that can dust my house already!!
Teach them to walk then teach them to shoot then deploy them on the street to 'protect' public safety. Does nobody see where this is going?
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