Sutton shares RL-trained robot dog preparing for lunar terrain
RichardSSutton · x · 2026-11-04
Richard Sutton highlights his student Abhishek Naik's work: Rocky the robot dog is being trained with reinforcement learning to handle irregular terrain. The photo shows Colin Bellinger and Naik walking Rocky on a simulated lunar surface at the Moonyard, a facility run by Canadian company Mission Control Space Services in Ottawa (National Research Council of Canada's image of the week).
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