Observed arrival · 2026-11-11
Train a robot duck to walk
A US$29 online course teaches reinforcement learning by training a simulated robot duck to walk in a browser-based workflow.
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- Beginners curious about robotics and reinforcement learning
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- The two listed modules take about 15 and 25 minutes; Chrome and a free Google account are required.
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The workflow begins with a physics model of the duck and an introduction to its 14 motors, then moves into a reinforcement-learning run. The page says thousands of simulated ducks practise simultaneously on a free cloud GPU, and places the lessons in Google Colab. Moving the trained policy onto a physical robot appears later in the described sequence; workshops and robot kits are presented as forthcoming.
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