A Robot Leg Learned to Walk by Itself Without Programming in Scarily Short Time

But with this new algorithm, the team has figured out how to make robots that can learn by simply doing. Instead, with this new technology, a robot can build its own internal mind map of its limbs and its environments, perfecting movement with its three-tendon, two-joint limb and interactions with its surroundings as it grows and learns. “I envision muscle-driven robots, capable of mastering what an animal takes months to learn, in just a few minutes,” says Dario Urbina-Melendez, another member of the team, and biomedical engineer at USC.

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