A System To Reproduce Different Animal Locomotion Skills In Robots | Ingrid Fadelli

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May 1, 2020 (Tech Xplore) -- Researchers at Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, have recently developed an imitation learning system that could enable a variety of agile locomotion behaviors in robots.

Their technique, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, allows robots to acquire new skills by imitating animals."This project builds on some previous works from computer graphics, which trained simulated characters to move by imitating human motion capture data," Jason Peng, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. "Most of these techniques were primarily applied in simulation, but in our recent project we took a first step towards applying them to real robots."