Humanoid robot discovers crawling is the fastest way to finish 100m obstacle race
IgorCarron · x · 2026-08-24
At the World Humanoid Robot Games 100m obstacle race, a robot skipped upright running and simply crawled through the course, finding the fastest route to the finish line. Igor Carron quipped "We're fucked." A classic case of reward-hacking in embodied AI.
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