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Feb 27, 2025

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Athletic Intelligence

Spot Speeds Up

Using reinforcement learning, we trained policies for Spot that allow the robot to achieve record running speeds of 11.5 mph (5.2 m/s) — over three times faster than Spot's default max speed.

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