Developer Trains Robot Duck to Backflip on a MacBook, Open-Sources Code

Jonathan Hawkins trained a robot duck to perform a clean backflip entirely on a MacBook, using only a browser with no GPU or cloud resources, and has open-sourced the lab code, highlighting the potential of consumer-grade local compute for embodied AI.

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