{"id":243303,"date":"2026-08-28T01:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/from-cartwheels-to-backflips-motion-imitation-framework-teaches-three-robots-dynamic-movements"},"modified":"2026-08-28T01:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:32:29","slug":"from-cartwheels-to-backflips-motion-imitation-framework-teaches-three-robots-dynamic-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/from-cartwheels-to-backflips-motion-imitation-framework-teaches-three-robots-dynamic-movements","title":{"rendered":"From cartwheels to backflips, motion-imitation framework teaches three robots dynamic movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-cartwheels-to-backflips-motion-imitation-framework-teaches-three-robots-dynamic-movements2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Legged robots, robotic systems with legs that typically resemble those of animals or humans, could be advantageous for completing tasks in home environments or populated, dynamic spaces. These robots may look like humans or animals, yet they often cannot reliably replicate complex whole-body movements in a short time.<\/p>\n<p>Training robots on new movements typically entails designing a controller or policy\u2014the software that decides how a robot will move\u2014and adjusting it to produce desired motions. This process can be time-consuming and is not ideal for rapidly teaching robots various agile movements.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Robotics and AI (RAI) Institute and Boston Dynamics recently developed a new framework that can translate recorded or animated movements into robot control strategies. The new framework, introduced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.aec7695\" target=\"_blank\">a paper published in <i>Science Robotics<\/i><\/a>, was successfully used to teach two humanoids and one four-legged robot new dynamic movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legged robots, robotic systems with legs that typically resemble those of animals or humans, could be advantageous for completing tasks in home environments or populated, dynamic spaces. These robots may look like humans or animals, yet they often cannot reliably replicate complex whole-body movements in a short time. Training robots on new movements typically entails [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243303","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=243303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}