Robot duck backflips, trained entirely on MacBook; new skills learned live in browser
tristanbob · x · 2026-09-02
Jonathan Hawkins demonstrates a robot duck performing a backflip, trained entirely on a MacBook. He has open-sourced the lab behind it. The video shows teaching the robot a brand-new trick, a headstand, from scratch live in the browser without any GPU or cloud resources.
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