Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/16/robots-made-from-tree-branches.html
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Success?
(I, for one, welcome our new Robot/Stick Overlords.)
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I know I’m thinking anthropomorphically here, but I feel even sadder for physically challenged tree robots forced to learn to walk with difficulty than Boston Dynamics’ abused robots.
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Robots made from tree branches learn how to walk
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It’s like robot QWOP
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Awww. It’s like watching baby Groot take his first steps.
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I find the learning process goes much better when I use carrots instead of sticks.
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It would be interesting to know how thoroughly they investigated the losses due to following a ‘local minimum’ with their DDPG/“Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient”. That is, there could be a much more productive gait which isn’t discovered due to settling on an initial slightly productive mode plus incrementalism from that point only. And/or is there any improvement towards discovery of a (more) ‘global minimum’ beyond genetic algorithms and other ‘ant colony’ multi-agent approach, or simulated annealing?
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The larval stage of a Survival Research Labs creation.
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March of the Ents.
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You said " ImatellaNobody"…
Another staggering achievement of Twig TechnologyTM.
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I hope they stick with this.
Unless it leads to Robot Triffids.
That would be bad.
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Triffids… now that would be a cromulent use-case for the flamethrower drones.
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Sometimes BoingBoing is quite prescient…
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