SMRTR Science & EngineeringAug 12, 2026Interesting Engineering

Humanoid robots master crawling, cartwheel and backflips using motion data, animation

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Researchers from the RAI Institute and Boston Dynamics built ZEST, a system that teaches humanoid robots complex movements like backflips, breakdancing, and army crawls using motion capture, video, and animation data. Training takes about 10 hours on a single GPU, and the system works across multiple robot types without extra fine-tuning.

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