AIMessinator robot reportedly trained for soccer through 140 years of virtual self-play
Skild AI says it trained Messinator in a virtual World Cup. A post quoting the announcement claims skills such as dribbling and recovering from falls emerged without hand-crafted rewards for those behaviors.
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Skild AI introduced Messinator as a robot trained to play soccer through self-play. A post quoting the announcement describes a humanoid playing against increasingly capable versions of itself for 140-plus simulated years, with scoring goals as its only objective. That post claims dribbling, shielding, tackling, shooting and recovery from falls emerged without new demonstrations or hand-crafted rewards for those behaviors—and transferred to a real robot.
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Messinator robot reportedly trained for soccer through 140 years of virtual self-play
Skild AI says it trained Messinator in a virtual World Cup. A post quoting the announcement claims skills such as dribbling and recovering from falls emerged without hand-crafted rewards for those behaviors.
