Robot team claims world's first skateboard kickflip, code and paper coming
Jan_R_Peters · x · 2026-11-01
Aditya Bhatt and Jan Peters' team in Darmstadt claim the world's first robot skateboard kickflip, dubbed "The Blind Skateboarder." Code and arXiv paper will be released soon.
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