Summary
According to a post on X by @mikejt4, Michael Tomlinson highlighted an anonymous paper under review at ICLR 2027. The paper describes a method that learns the command a high-level behavior model sends to a whole-body controller by predicting how motion continues. The post says joints were 70 mm off target on average across 4,096 test motions, compared with 188 mm for Nvidia's SONIC, with about 12 times less training. It also says adding one direction to a walk changes step height from 15 to 3, though the snippet cuts off before the full figure.
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What happened
Michael Tomlinson highlighted an anonymous paper under review at ICLR 2027 that learns the command a high-level behavior model sends to a whole-body controller by predicting how motion continues. He says joints were 70 mm off target on average across 4,096 test motions, versus 188 mm for Nvidia's SONIC, with about...
Why it matters
Robotics teams building humanoids may care if the reported gains hold up, since the work targets how the high-level model talks to the body controller. Because the paper is anonymous and still under review, these figures come from a social post and have not been independently checked by VQV. Watch for the full paper, released code, or independent benchmarks against SONIC.
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Signal Intelligence
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Technical label WATCH
Public Interest 29
Category MONEY
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Practical Impact Score 0
Novelty Interest Score 70
Consequence Score 18
Curiosity Score 84
Shareability Score 41
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