Based on the title alone, I thought this might be a skateboard that moved on millipede style legs, rather than wheels.
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#13Based on the title alone, I thought this might be a skateboard that moved on millipede style legs, rather than wheels.
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
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#152025 and we still can’t flawlessly instantly play a web video when play is pressed.
What are we doing here?
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#16I'm not an expert, but if I understand the abstract correctly, the big deal isn't the skateboarding at all. This is a modal behavior where both the individual behaviors and the mode transition decisions were trained at the same time. Is this correct?
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#17Pretty cool! At first I wasn’t that impressed because it’s mostly just pushing to get some speed then “passively” riding down some ramps and steps. Then I realized that riding down steps is not a passive activity — most humans will fail their first time and need to learn to maintain balance while the board bounces over rough terrain.
I think most inanimate objects would fall off a skateboard when pushed down steps, so it’s an impressive display of balance and tool-use in my opinion!
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I can't speak to UMich specifically, but graduate research is long hours and crap pay, and the university gets to sell the results.
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#20Aw, I was hoping for a skateboard that replaced the wheels with legged locomotion— like a cilia skateboard