Stephanie Zhan(@stephzhan):⚽️ 🤝 🤖 @SkildAI is bringing back self-play, this time for physical AI. Inspired by the World Cup this summer, Skild started from S1 to have a humanoid play soccer against increasingly capable versions of itself: - for 140+ simulated years - only objective during self-play: score goals No new demonstrations. No hand-crafted rewards for dribbling, shielding, tackling, shooting, or recovering from falls. Those behaviors *emerged* because they helped it win, and transferred to a real robot A scalable way for robots to create their own curriculum, improve beyond human-provided data, and keep making themselves better!

2026.09.23 18:25

⚽️ 🤝 🤖 @SkildAI is bringing back self-play, this time for physical AI. Inspired by the World Cup this summer, Skild started from S1 to have a humanoid play soccer against increasingly capable versions of itself: - for 140+ simulated years - only objective during self-play: score goals No new demonstrations. No hand-crafted rewards for dribbling, shielding, tackling, shooting, or recovering from falls. Those behaviors *emerged* because they helped it win, and transferred to a real robot A scalable way for robots to create their own curriculum, improve beyond human-provided data, and keep making themselves better!