Stick Insect Teaches AI to Walk: Six-Legged Robot Learns in 1 Hour, Keeps Going Even After Losing a Leg
An international team led by Tohoku University and Thailand’s VISTEC trained AI on just three or four steps of stick insect walking data. Using adversarial inverse reinforcement learning, a six-legged robot learned to walk in under an hour, navigated uneven terrain, and adapted to a missing limb — a breakthrough for disaster-zone robotics published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
