{"id":137202,"date":"2022-03-21T21:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/mit-researchers-use-simulation-to-train-a-robot-to-run-at-high-speeds"},"modified":"2022-03-21T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T04:27:06","slug":"mit-researchers-use-simulation-to-train-a-robot-to-run-at-high-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/mit-researchers-use-simulation-to-train-a-robot-to-run-at-high-speeds","title":{"rendered":"MIT researchers use simulation to train a robot to run at high speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-researchers-use-simulation-to-train-a-robot-to-run-at-high-speeds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four-legged robots are nothing novel \u2014 Boston Dynamics\u2019 Spot has been making the rounds for some time, as have countless alternative open source designs. But with theirs, researchers at MIT claim to have broken the record for the fastest robot run recorded. Working out of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the team says that they developed a system that allows the MIT-designed Mini Cheetah to learn to run by trial and error in simulation.<\/p>\n<p>While the speedy Mini Cheetah has limited direct applications in the enterprise, the researchers believe that their technique could be used to improve the capabilities of other robotics systems \u2014 including those used in factories to assemble products before they\u2019re shipped to customers. It\u2019s timely work as the pandemic accelerates the adoption of autonomous robots in industry. According to an Automation World <a href=\"https:\/\/www.automationworld.com\/factory\/robotics\/article\/21307161\/robotics-adoption-survey-finds-ups-downs-and-a-few-surprises\">survey<\/a>, 44.9% of the assembly and manufacturing facilities that currently use robots consider the robots to be an integral part of their operations.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s cutting-edge robots are \u201ctaught\u201d to perform tasks through reinforcement learning, a type of machine learning technique that enables robots to learn by trial and error using feedback from their own actions and experiences. When a robot performs a \u201cright\u201d action \u2014 i.e., an action that\u2019ll lead it toward a desired goal, like stowing an object on a shelf \u2014 it receives a \u201creward.\u201d When it makes a mistake, the robot either doesn\u2019t receive a reward or is \u201cpunished\u201d by losing a previous reward. Over time, the robot discovers ways to maximize its reward and perform actions that achieve the sought-after goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four-legged robots are nothing novel \u2014 Boston Dynamics\u2019 Spot has been making the rounds for some time, as have countless alternative open source designs. But with theirs, researchers at MIT claim to have broken the record for the fastest robot run recorded. Working out of MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the team [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137202","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}