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Sep 3, 2025

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Athletic Intelligence

Balance and Brains: Building an Ultra Mobile Vehicle

While AI has mastered language, getting robots to move swiftly and effortlessly through the unstructured world has not been solved. RAI Institute is building robots that think, plan, and move like athletes—robots that combine the mobility of parkour with the intelligence to perceive, plan, and navigate any terrain, no matter how complicated.

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