Why Robots Keep Falling Over (And How We're Fixing It)

Walking seems simple. You've been doing it since you were one year old. But for a robot, staying upright is one of the hardest problems in all of engineering, and the solution involves physics, machine learning, and watching a robot fall on its face ten thousand times until it figures it out. In this video we break down exactly how robots balance, why early robots walked like they desperately needed the toilet, and how modern systems like model predictive control and reinforcement learning are closing the gap between machines and humans faster than most people realise. This is Assembly Labs! Where we make the future of robotics and engineering make sense. 🔔 Subscribe to stay ahead of the curve.