Agile robots are being trained to perform incredible parkour moves in a bid to make them behave more like humans.
Experts made the androids run, jump and climb over obstacles in both urban and natural environments.
Researchers studied parkour videos to recreate the kinds of movements human athletes perform.
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The team at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) and University of California, Berkeley, US, trained a Unitree G1 robot for the trial.
The results were astonishing, as reported by What’s The Jam.
A spokesperson said: “While recent advances in humanoid locomotion have achieved stable walking on varied terrains, capturing the agility and adaptivity of highly dynamic human motions remains an open challenge.
“In particular, agile parkour in complex environments demands not only low-level robustness but also human-like motion expressiveness, long-horizon skill composition and perception-driven decision-making.
“Our first approach leverages motion matching, formulated as nearest-neighbor search in a feature space, to compose retargeted atomic human skills into long-horizon kinematic trajectories.
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“This framework enables the flexible composition and smooth transition of complex skill chains while preserving the elegance and fluidity of dynamic human motions.”
The robot demonstrated highly dynamic parkour skills including running, vaulting and climbing.
The spokesperson added: “Extensive real-world experiments on a Unitree G1 humanoid robot demonstrated highly dynamic parkour skills such as climbing tall obstacles up to 1.25m, 96% robot height, as well as long-horizon multi-obstacle traversal with closed-loop adaptation to real-time obstacle perturbations.”
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