How mini Cheetah robot learns to play football - BBC News

A headless robot called the mini Cheetah, developed by US researchers, has been taught to play football.<br /><br />Machine learning has been used to allow the robot, made at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to negotiate objects though trial and error.<br /><br />The robot can go over different types of terrain and in theory it can be pushed or kicked, and still stay upright.<br /><br />Director of MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory, Daniela Russ, said other real-world applications of the technology used include tasking the robot to travel across dangerous territory or even carrying things for humans.<br /><br />This film is from Click – the BBC’s weekly technology show.