Watch: Team creates better way to teach robots to walk on tricky terrain

Researchers have created a faster, cheaper way to teach a humanoid robot to walk over real-world terrain.

Across sand, soggy grass, and gravel. Up slopes and stairs and across level ground. Whatever uneven terrain Georgia Tech researchers could find on campus or easily simulate presented no problem for their two-legged humanoid robot.

Machine learning PhD student Feiyang Wu led development of a new kind of whole-bo...