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The advancement is a step towards making humanoid robots move like real people in the future. "ASAP enables highly agile motions that were previously difficult to achieve, demonstrating the ...

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pure “functional” movements. The hypothesis of the paper is simple: Robots can move in a purely functional way, taking the shortest or most efficient motion from one state to the next.

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Carnegie Mellon University and NVIDIA have teamed up to develop a new training technique that enables humanoid robots to perform complex athletic movements with unprecedented agility—from Cristiano ...

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The robots move using electric fans, allowing them to float and navigate in the ISS’s microgravity environment. Equipped with cameras and sensors, they can see and map their surroundings.