Boston Dynamics taught Atlas a Rabona kick. Learned from human mocap, retargeted to Atlas, trained in sim via RL, deployed zero-shot to the real robot. Soccer skills demand whole-body coordination, and similar recipe transfers to warehouse work.

Human motion capture -> Re-targeting -> RL -> Robot demo goes viral

that is how I must use to look lol.

Atlas has always been seen as a representative of the RL-driven approach. So if it ends up mimicking humans, wouldn’t that make its body design kind of wasted?

DEX reviewed the Rabona. 🤖 Kangaroo Man says if it can track back on defense, it gets minutes. 🦘☕️

Boston Dynamics teaching Atlas a Rabona kick from mocap, trained in sim and deployed zero-shot.

人間の動きが、そのまま未来の技術の基礎になる時代。 キックという単純な動作の中に、協調・判断・意志が宿る。 静かに進化の方向を示す一歩だと感じます。🌏

that 's really insane