CMU taught a robot dog to walk a balance beam

While discussing humanoid robots not long ago, someone told me their main issue with the form factor is that — from an evolutionary standpoint — we’re not built particularly well. That’s not to say that our bodies haven’t served us well, of course.
They’ve done the trick for a few hundred thousand years. It’s more that if you sat down with a talented product designer and asked them to whip up something from scratch, certain concerns would likely lead them in an entirely different direction.
Balance is on that list. Again, we’ve done just fine for ourselves, all things conside

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