MIT's Mini Cheetah robot runs faster than ever

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2 жыл бұрын

A new method allows MIT's Mini Cheetah to learn how to run fast and adapt to walking on challenging terrain. This learning-based method outperforms previous human-designed methods and allowed the Mini Cheetah to set a record for speed.
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The work was supported by DARPA Machine Common Sense Program, Naver Labs, MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab, and the NSF AI Institute of AI and Fundamental Interactions. The research was conducted at the Improbable AI Lab.
Video edited by Tom Buehler

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@colinbutts252 2 жыл бұрын

MIT: "Cheetah, I need you to save mankind." Cheetah: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." 😌

@Fex. 2 жыл бұрын

It already looks like a happy puppy that runs around wildly. :)

@cris-1001 2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say exactly that!

@collinkruger5476 2 жыл бұрын

@@cris-1001 Same! 😁

@rylaczero3740 2 жыл бұрын

.. when its not going after you, sure.

@EsplodingBomb 2 жыл бұрын

Got the zoomies!

@kristijanoros7208 2 жыл бұрын

too bad it will be equipped with automatic guns and impossible to escape from...

@neutron-au 2 жыл бұрын

There's just something that is really interesting to me about a machine learning to walk, rather than just hard-coded AI...

@GrandmasterUV 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it starts to make the system conciously sensing like us!!!

@thiesenf 2 жыл бұрын

SkyNet is coming... :-)

@animewhisperer1830 2 жыл бұрын

fr though its so cool

@bschultz7390 2 жыл бұрын

The “half-speed” run looks like me trying to move quickly!

@Sordatos 2 жыл бұрын

I love when he falls with the human designed controllers

@irvingchies1626 2 жыл бұрын

looks like it's having a seizure or a cramp :c

@hogbmain 2 жыл бұрын

Hits his foot and just dies

@bruinflight1 2 жыл бұрын

The lifelike movements of this thing are uncanny

@BioClone Ай бұрын

100%, broken limbs fast zombie movements here

@jaypers232 2 жыл бұрын

This is just a cat with tape on its paws

@apbosh1 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing performance and power in the joints

@robh3518 2 жыл бұрын

There’s something unsettling with the way it scurries through the gravel.

@spencer963 2 жыл бұрын

Very spider like, gave it a sinister edge. Yeah I felt that too. Let's hope we can build a great relationship with these things, they'll easily outsmart us in 10 years or so (if that)

@jezer8325 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. Awesome work

@briannoone7047 2 жыл бұрын

The military contract has been put through and mini cheetahs have been released to the battlefield. The opposing forced hold their positions as small whines and clicks are heard in the distance. Then magnifies to a dull roar.... *squeak squeak squeak* hundreds, no thousands of tiny robots scramble across the horizon towards the encampment. A robot spider army races with malicious intent, nothing can stop them, especially not gravel.

@guadalupe8589 2 жыл бұрын

Or the enemy's counter mini cheetahs... Let the epic battle begin!!

@renaissanceman5847 2 жыл бұрын

until they employ a 200 year old technique... called razor wire.

@enjam9281 2 жыл бұрын

lmao especially not gravel

@dminting 2 жыл бұрын

Probably still susceptible to an EMP.

@vaethe 2 жыл бұрын

@@renaissanceman5847 they figured that one out in the war of 2041, some cheetahs carry wooden boards with tracking marks on them so the others can find it and scramble over

@khellafsamy 2 жыл бұрын

wonderful. great job

@corrywisse6589 2 жыл бұрын

The way it moves, kinda reminds me of the facehugger in Aliens.

@Miaonul Жыл бұрын

the way the legs are slightly spread out is so funny😂

@Syritis 2 жыл бұрын

Did anyone else see a puppy that got the zoomies and act surprised when it ran into a wall?

@AntonTimofeev1988 2 жыл бұрын

wow! a little energy-inefficient, but very smooth!

@sonofamortician 2 жыл бұрын

I love it, still seems kinda clumsy, looking forward to the eventual economically agile end result. Perhaps the learning algorithm should also go hand in hand with AI design changes/optimizations

@wanderingstar9322 2 жыл бұрын

This is both fascinating and terrifying to me.

@normahostetler7859 2 жыл бұрын

DARPA funded...mostly terrifying.

@joannot6706 2 жыл бұрын

Looks a bit drunk but it works so that's great! Can't wait for the humanoid version of cheetah.

@MarkJonesisjustaman 2 жыл бұрын

It's fascinating to observe the learned behaviors. Quite life-like. You all are definitely onto something much bigger than it looks. Any chance of giant robots? I am a fan:)

@theoneandonly3945 2 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@ZorgKirill 2 жыл бұрын

It reminded me of "Metalhead Is Upon Us" video, especially the part with one leg disabled

@AwesomeStuff91 2 жыл бұрын

The dialogue in this scene is incredible

@Sol-En 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool !

@ronerredmek1265 2 жыл бұрын

Incredible !! 😀

@steveaustin5344 2 жыл бұрын

You could borrow some design ideas from dirt bikes and rally cars and drones. More specifically, it looks like smoothing out some of the jerk, snap, crackle, & pop might give better control and less wear. Totally awesome though. Damn amazing work.

@wolfura 2 жыл бұрын

If you want skynet to happen, this is the way to do it.

@user-qjvqfjv 2 жыл бұрын

No it isn't. Turn off the movies and learn about the real world.

@lucyharrelson3412 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, can u imagine those things chasing us around,

@lucyharrelson3412 2 жыл бұрын

@@user-qjvqfjv im pretty sure he is concerned about the real world. Turn off the movies, the movies already predicted this. Maybe you should turn them on to see what happens when you start letting machines make their own decisions.

@user-qjvqfjv 2 жыл бұрын

@@lucyharrelson3412 Movies predicted what? AI is still garbage. Machine sentience is a fantasy peddled by futurists who want to seem relevant and insightful. You're just an irrational, childish luddite who can't distinguish fantasy from reality.

@michael4576 2 жыл бұрын

@@lucyharrelson3412 💩💭🧟🤖💥🥴🥴

@meltingwax 9 ай бұрын

from SICP to robotic cheetahs..... what a journey

@harunbicer5180 2 жыл бұрын

Damnthose Enginieers. Involving so much energy and knowledge for those kind of toys. There are so many human with physical traids wich could be helped if they use this knowhow on that right way.

@RennieAsh 2 жыл бұрын

I love how they show off the "Boston Dynamics" tentative trot control system 0:54

@ajking913 2 жыл бұрын

Oh goody! The Skynet puppy is learning to outrun us! Yay!

@omijharjani 2 жыл бұрын

Cheetah runs like Phoebe from friends

@theoneandonly3945 2 жыл бұрын

It's so cute!

@jimparsons6803 2 жыл бұрын

Liked the presentation and the expertise this implies. One might guess that a few years down the road, a similar widget might be chasing down a tank with twenty pounds of C-4 strapped to is belly? Given the upset in Eastern Europe? Puts a different coat of paint on the Terminator series, don't it?

@CharlesVanNoland 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting, and I feel like I'm seeing some asymmetry which reminds me that mammals' brains are two hemispheres working in concert rather than one monolithic sheet of neurons. If some symmetry were applied to the network I believe this could be leveled up in performance, and efficiency!

@donkylefernandez4680 Жыл бұрын

One is for muscle, the other is for telling the time

@ckdigitaltheqof6th210 2 жыл бұрын

The ball tip feet, has universal stand grip, but is far more complex maintaining to ML steps programing, plus the mech use more energy over leverage strain, without a pivit feet, as natures scientist engineer, evolution, did.

@cwk1203 2 жыл бұрын

Feel relieved it’s still attached to a cord

@RoboTekno 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like it's rushing to find the closest bathroom...

@pauljs75 2 жыл бұрын

I would think quadrupeds evolved one more major articulation on their limbs for a reason. If they ever add wrists or ankles, I wonder if a good bit of that clumsiness would go away?

@paulmeynell8866 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@AndersonSilva-dg4mg 2 жыл бұрын

wow, nice job

@HelennaRose 2 жыл бұрын

It's incredible how a machine that mimics nature tricks the human brain.

@ArmenianDude88 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know if there is a CAD model available for my high school engineering students to look at? Doesn't have to be this particular one just any robot with high agility

@xxbatman69xx98 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure there’s something out there but you’ll have to look hard I think. They probably don’t just give designs like these away.

@z--KAISER 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine seeing that in the night

@basukisugito3275 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder difference in energy consumption it needs compare to wheels?

@LyricalWax 2 жыл бұрын

It starts now. We're all doomed.

@youreditor5264 2 жыл бұрын

it reminds me of an excited pug on gravel

@UncleFishbits 2 жыл бұрын

When the leash gets tangled under their leg and you have to untangle it.

@Ou_dembele 2 жыл бұрын

Damm, nice

@jcruz6888 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine this coming @ you with a taser on it

@ouwmaigod2867 4 ай бұрын

It's a cute robot, as long as you don't mind the idea of a human-sensing, automatic-firing version of this robot running towards you.

@israeljosendegarcia474 2 жыл бұрын

this is fun! :)

@emilychiou3122 7 ай бұрын

Makes me think of a puppy scrambling around

@canadianwildlifeservice8883 2 жыл бұрын

I want them to make this thing again but as a giant spider.

@andrewzboard 2 жыл бұрын

The story in Gizmodo said this is a new gait. If so, what is it? What goes where when?

@Uvoted4this 2 жыл бұрын

That's great but can the mini cheetah still do this good after a Learned Controller 6-pack. Let's see the walk the white line test.

@radhi.sghaier 2 жыл бұрын

What if observations from how it learned to move were used to enhance the kinematic model used to code the behavior (non-learned behavior), tested, then (if there's improvement) used as a base for the robot to learn from. (Basically perform assisted RL based on past experiences of the robot, and expertise/physics knowledge of the engineering team) ... I'd be interested in seeing the results ... Great work !

@isaelsky21 2 жыл бұрын

The Human approach. Like the idea. Hopefully eventually they'll develop a kind of "memory" onto these robots, but I think their main focus is on movement, which probably takes from development of any other area. At least that's what I think..

@hassanshahzad3537 2 жыл бұрын

i had the same thinking but it seems simulation based learning is far more efficient than in real life learning although less accurate

@WilliamAndySmith-Romaq 2 жыл бұрын

I'm curious about the stabilization of having a "head" and "tail". Tails in living organisms, and I would presume along with the head, help provide a "sense of location and velocity" crucial for balance. I have no idea, but is that even a thing?

@BHBalast 2 жыл бұрын

Velocity and location can be tracked very accurately placing IMU's and cameras in any multiple places, the tail and head just as a "swinging mass" might be useful for balancing tho.

@ozzybloke4830 2 жыл бұрын

Accelerometer and a gyro

@ablative1732 2 жыл бұрын

I for one, would like to welcome our new robot overlords..

@discomoose 2 жыл бұрын

Black Mirror's 'Metalhead' episode coming to life. Can't wait. :P

@LamiLow11 2 жыл бұрын

Installed the cociane code I see. Jokes aside very impressive work!

@Erik-rp1hi 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty good but the gate looks off. Maybe improvement? Or is it just the mechanics of the joints limitations.

@tugzzcouncil485 2 жыл бұрын

ok now we will have one of the with a c4 running twords us

@unworngalaxy 2 жыл бұрын

Well, now I have something new to rule my nightmares

@meinlet5103 2 жыл бұрын

it's impressive because it is like ai playing qwop. they don't have pressure sensor like we do.

@greatdanexlks 2 жыл бұрын

RAVAGE!!! - EJECT!!!! In my Soundwave voice! They've made a Decepticon IRL!!!

@CookieMonster-nt8hh 2 жыл бұрын

its hilarious that the thing didn't already learn to not run face-first into a wall

@Ritefita 2 жыл бұрын

they''ll invent the wheel soon =)

@sethfeldpausch4337 2 жыл бұрын

These look eerily similar to the EMMI from Metroid Dread!

@damnoish 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like a four legged spider 😄

@JamieBarrington 2 жыл бұрын

🎶"... I'm a happy, happy guy... I'm a happy, happy, happy guy..." 🎶

@DanFrederiksen 2 жыл бұрын

It's spassing around :) maybe lift the cable out of the way or use batteries.

@Sosspurple2318 2 жыл бұрын

Congrats to the team!! Can’t imagine what the tech will look like in 5-10 years!😁

@eladsgarr 2 жыл бұрын

Go watch Terminator or Black Mirror.

@samlebon9884 2 жыл бұрын

@@eladsgarr And Tribes of Europa.

@jasonreehoff4209 2 жыл бұрын

Probably going to look like you

@RealMyrmidon 2 жыл бұрын

That amazing! I love how they just run after the robot with a laptop in hands. Great work!

@ProjectPhysX 2 жыл бұрын

Play this at 2x speed and it looks like a terrifying robot dystopia

@user-xb6fl9ri6g 2 жыл бұрын

"It's a trick, get an axe."

@roccoapp00 2 жыл бұрын

work on the paws to add acceleration and stability

@nemonomen3340 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine walking down the street when _that thing_ rips around the corner and bolts at you with its scrambling gait. I consider myself a very emotionally stable individual when it comes to irrational fears of things such as a robotic uprising. But something about the way that thing moves nearly throws it all out the window.

@dogsarebest7107 2 жыл бұрын

Looks really similar to the BlackMirror murderbots tbh

@kakulmeow 2 жыл бұрын

just throw water at it

@annforstater8160 2 жыл бұрын

Wow - Fabulous!

@pchoice0 2 жыл бұрын

움직임이 아니라 지면 반응 속도에 차이가 속도를 만들어 낸다~

@matteoperron5436 2 жыл бұрын

this is so cute

@cryptout 2 жыл бұрын

it needs paws and ankles

@TheAmazingZEB 8 ай бұрын

* Takes it for walk. ‘No it doesn’t bite/ end up destroying humanity’

@nagualdesign 2 жыл бұрын

This is just high-speed walking. It could run even faster if it switched gait. A real cheetah doesn't just move its limbs faster. I look forward to seeing it when it learns to gallop.

@bistromathics6 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment (to me it looked like a clumsy trot).

@bistromathics6 2 жыл бұрын

At 1:12 it actually looks like it could learn to canter or gallop, with that asymmetrical movement

@khatharrmalkavian3306 2 жыл бұрын

TFW you run like the wind, but still have to be plugged in.

@n3r3m4c 2 жыл бұрын

This cutie is more of a Lil' Derp than a cheetah.

@another-learner8677 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine showing up to a dog park with one of these on leash then let it loose to run around.

@gagarin777 2 жыл бұрын

@0:55 - that's ED-209's grandfather

@wblais01 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing work! Any thought to apply it to a six legged model? Seems more stable and possibly more efficient.

@chrisalbertson5838 2 жыл бұрын

Actually it is not. Six legs can be more stable if you only consider static stability. What 6-legs really does is allow a simpler controller. Insects have tiny brains. As for efficiency, more legs is more moving mass. The most efficient walkers are humans. We burn less calories for the mass and distance moved. The only way to improve over a human is "zero legs" and be a flying bird riding thermals.

@rylaczero3740 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisalbertson5838 I thought you would say we need one legged humans for improvement. lol

@kristijanoros7208 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisalbertson5838 wheels that are adaptable to the terrain would be even better

@samlebon9884 2 жыл бұрын

4 legs are good, 6 legs are better.

@samlebon9884 2 жыл бұрын

@@rylaczero3740 We have much bigger brains; we don't need legs. We'd be something the Borg queen

@preddy09 2 жыл бұрын

But can the HDMI dongle support 4k60fps?

@AlexGeek 2 жыл бұрын

0:19 chasing its own tail

@JavierChiappa 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine using this instead of a javelin missile, shit would be A LOT more scary to a russian tank, hearing this thing come out of the side of the road and come running straight towards your tank. Drops a mine and goes running away. When you look around, you also have mines in the back and in the sides.