{"id":103284,"date":"2020-03-04T23:03:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/googles-robot-learns-to-walk-in-real-world"},"modified":"2020-03-04T23:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:03:58","slug":"googles-robot-learns-to-walk-in-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/googles-robot-learns-to-walk-in-real-world","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s robot learns to walk in real world"},"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>The field of robotics took one step forward\u2014followed by another, then several more\u2014when a robot called Rainbow Dash recently taught itself to walk. The four-legged machine only required a few hours to learn to walk backward and forward, and turn right and left while doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Google, UC Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2002.08550.pdf\">published a paper on the ArXiv preprint server<\/a> describing a statistical AI technique known as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/deep+reinforcement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep reinforcement<\/a> learning they used to produce this accomplishment, which is significant for several reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Most reinforcement learning deployments take place in computer-simulated environments. Rainbow Dash, however, used this technology to learn to walk in an actual physical environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field of robotics took one step forward\u2014followed by another, then several more\u2014when a robot called Rainbow Dash recently taught itself to walk. The four-legged machine only required a few hours to learn to walk backward and forward, and turn right and left while doing so. Researchers from Google, UC Berkeley and the Georgia Institute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103284","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}