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Humanoid robot learns to sprint and spin kick using AI trained on human motion data

As of September 2026: Co-lead author of the BeyondMimic paper

Humanoid robot videos usually show one trick per clip, each engineered until it looks right. Researchers at UC Berkeley and Stanford taught a Unitree G1 robot to sprint, spin-kick, crawl, dance and land aerial cartwheels using one training setup with shared settings.

Updated Sep 13