Walking the Line: When Robots Learn to Step Like Humans (Without the Drama)
Walking looks easy until you ask a robot to do it. For humans, stepping over a box or climbing a stair is usually not an executive decision. The body sees the surface, estimates where the foot should land, keeps rhythm, adjusts weight, and moves on. No committee meeting. No multi-stage training pipeline. No adversarial discriminator whispering, “that gait is not sufficiently human-like.” ...