We have a new contender for the wildest robotics flex of the year Boston Dynamics just bolted roller wheels onto their humanoid Atlas robot so it can drift around warehouses and hit mid-air 360 spins their controls engineer literally stopped touching his gaming PC at home because driving the real robot like a video game was way more fun here's what's actually going on: > the wheels aren't a commercial product, they're a torture test designed to push Atlas's motors and actuators to their absolute limits > for the jump 360 spin, the team fed human motion-capture footage into their reinforcement learning pipeline and the robot nailed it on the very first try > for the side-to-side jump dashes, nobody hard-coded how the skates work. The AI policy figured out on its own how to roll on the wheels mid-slide > the team drove and tuned the whole thing in simulation first, and it transferred onto the physical robot almost seamlessly > next up, they're training the RL brain to invent recovery moves on the fly when a motor fails mid-motion most robotics startups are still trying to get humanoids to walk across a flat room without tipping over meanwhile Boston Dynamics put theirs on roller skates just to see if they could break the motors

Old is gold ☠️🏆 But I'm old. Learned the old way and for many years used the old way. My wife taught the old and new school method. Here's the difference. > The old way was and is fast and efficient. > The new school method helps children have a deep understanding of what number placement really means and how it matters in solving operations. > Kids don't have to do those steps forever, but it is very valuable in the learning process. Stand in a 4th grade classroom and have students explain all these "new" multi step procedures and you'll see exactly what they comprehend and what they don't. It's a deeper understanding than just computing. It isn't the waste of time we might think it is. Sure that in the second the boxes are drawn you got the answers. But that’s not the point.

This 1-hour lecture is free, and will put you ahead of everyone else around you. Today 95% of people still use AI like a calculator. The 5% who treat it like infrastructure will run everything If you watch anything today, what’s Demi’s lecture👇