Training a Robot Duck to Dance: A Quest for Nvidia Funding
johnowhitaker · x · 2026-08-28
John Owadaker shared a fun video of a robot duck dancing. In a reply, he joked that if he trains a cool enough policy in simulation, he might convince Hugging Face to use their new Nvidia funding to gift him a mini-duck. He promised to post fun failures to the thread as he experiments with the training process.
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