Clickbait title, but very interesting article. Essentially, they're teaching quadriped robots to walk using machine learning instead of programming precise movements. They're finding that these quadruped robots are able to adapt to real world environments and learn to traverse appropriately in a fairly short amount of time with a decent success rate.
The title of this article, and the fact that it implies that robotic dogs will replace dogs, as in, you know... Living, breathing, slobbering, unconditional loving, good boys... Is ridiculous... But the research being done in the field of robotics is quite interesting.
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Reply to Researchers may be one step closer to making robot dogs our new best friends: Using advances in machine learning, they developed cutting-edge approaches to shorten in-the-field training times for quadruped robots, getting them to walk — and even roll over — in record time. by MyLifeisAsaJoker
Clickbait title, but very interesting article. Essentially, they're teaching quadriped robots to walk using machine learning instead of programming precise movements. They're finding that these quadruped robots are able to adapt to real world environments and learn to traverse appropriately in a fairly short amount of time with a decent success rate.
The title of this article, and the fact that it implies that robotic dogs will replace dogs, as in, you know... Living, breathing, slobbering, unconditional loving, good boys... Is ridiculous... But the research being done in the field of robotics is quite interesting.