{"id":103207,"date":"2020-03-03T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/google-algorithm-teaches-robot-how-to-walk-in-mere-hours"},"modified":"2020-03-03T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:14:24","slug":"google-algorithm-teaches-robot-how-to-walk-in-mere-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/google-algorithm-teaches-robot-how-to-walk-in-mere-hours","title":{"rendered":"Google algorithm teaches robot how to walk in mere hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwyiq6dCgOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new robot has overcome a fundamental challenge of locomotion by teaching itself how to walk.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Google developed algorithms that helped the four-legged bot to learn how to walk across a range of surfaces within just hours of practice, annihilating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essentialbaby.com.au\/baby\/development\/6-12-months\/the-sixmonthold-walking-her-way-into-the-guinness-book-of-world-records-literally-20190506-h1e4bk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the record times<\/a> set by its human overlords.<\/p>\n<p>Their system uses deep reinforcement learning, a form of AI that teaches through trial and error by providing rewards for certain actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new robot has overcome a fundamental challenge of locomotion by teaching itself how to walk. Researchers from Google developed algorithms that helped the four-legged bot to learn how to walk across a range of surfaces within just hours of practice, annihilating the record times set by its human overlords. Their system uses deep reinforcement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}