Make: Volume 93

get our hands on the technology of robot motion,

like inverse kinematics (page 44), QDD actuators

(page 38), and FOC motor control (page 112).

AI can give a robot know-how, but it’s also how

the robot learns to do things physically. Ben Bolte

of K-Scale said they aren’t writing programs

that tell the robot how to walk. Instead, they run

simulations asking the AI to figure out the best

way for the robot to stand up and walk. Pawel

Budzianowski, whose speciality is machine

learning, showed us the simulations on his

screen — some of the robot figures kept falling

down and getting up again, like a child learning to

walk. But will the humanoid robot ...