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Realizing full-body control of humanoid robots

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Using deep reinforcement learning, flexible skills and behaviours emerge in humanoid robots, as demonstrated in two recent reports.

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Fig. 1: Full-body control and emergent behaviour in humanoid robots via reinforcement learning.

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