Boston Dynamics Puts Atlas on Wheels for Radical RL Stress Test

Boston Dynamics swapped Atlas's feet for skateboard wheels in its 'Atlas On a Roll' experiment, using a minimal hardware adapter plus motion capture and reinforcement learning to master driving, drifting and 360-degree jumps, while stress-testing its actuators and whole-body RL controller.

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