Boston Dynamics bolts scooter wheels onto Atlas to test how well its simulator knows the motors
Boston Dynamics mounted off-the-shelf scooter rims on Atlas's ankle actuators and let a reinforcement-learning policy drive. The wheels are the stunt; the work it describes is a motor model accurate enough to train against, while Atlas's production actuators from Hyundai Mobis are only at the prototype stage.
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