Humanoid robots don't need to scan the whole ground: structured perception could slash terrain training
breadli428 · x · 2026-10-29
Robot learning engineer breadli428 discusses a structured perception approach: instead of scanning the entire ground, the robot anticipates just its next footholds. With fewer but more structured perception dimensions, they hope to greatly reduce the variety of terrains the robot needs to be trained on, cutting the cost of exposing robots to many terrain types. Commenter SreeramG agreed: humans don't scan the whole ground when walking, and recent Unitree demos exploiting this look promising.
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