Mecha Corp unveils Spike, an RL-trained bipedal robot running purely on proprioception
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-15
Mecha Corp's founders showed off Spike, their first prototype: a bipedal robot that learned to walk via reinforcement learning and runs entirely on proprioception, serving as a platform to iterate toward home robots.
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