Tanmai Gopal
@tanmaigo
CEO @promptql - Maintaining shared context is a second job nobody wants.
Joined November 2014
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I can’t believe we’re living through this moment in history.
It’s like a dream come true for every single kid who was into science or engineering to just watch what’s happening.
An engineer that built this 400m-running humanoid robot explained the wild form:
▫️initially designed it with human arm swing
▫️but swinging arms too much put heavy load on shoulder joints, led to overheating (and robot couldn’t finish 400m)
▫️robot invented the new running style on its own (hands held up near face to reduce shoulder load while legs could keep trucking)
▫️per Global Times, “in a simulated learning environment…the team gave the robot continuous rewards, and through repeated iteration on the data it gradually settled into a posture that suited it better.”
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Full read here (fascinating):
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