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Atari Lab demonstrates advanced humanoid robot locomotion and multi-step planning under its MotionDisco project

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C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Holy crap

https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

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Atari Lab demonstrates advanced humanoid robot locomotion and multi-step planning under its MotionDisco project

Demos show the robot climbing desks and balancing on boxes.

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#421

Original post

Chris Paxton#737

C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Holy crap

https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

3:04 AM · Jun 5, 2026 · 47.1K Views

Story Overview

Atari Lab's MotionDisco framework automates the discovery of complex, contact-rich motions for humanoids through LLM-guided evolutionary search over interaction sequences, followed by kinodynamic optimization and RL policy training. The resulting behaviors transfer to physical robots and include multi-step actions such as retrieving objects from the floor, climbing onto desks while carrying items, and balancing in contorted poses to reach targets like a hanging banana.

Motions are generated from scratch rather than adapted from human examples

The system avoids teleoperation and motion retargeting entirely, instead searching over possible contact sequences with pruning to manage the combinatorial space. Ablations in the accompanying arXiv preprint highlight the contribution of the language-model component, though direct head-to-head metrics against prior contact-explicit TAMP or retargeting baselines are not supplied.

Hardware results are shown on specific tasks but broader limits stay unspecified

Videos confirm successful sim-to-real transfer on desk climbing and object interaction in a motion-capture lab, yet details on the robot platform, success rates across trials, training compute, or performance degradation outside those conditions remain absent from the project page and paper abstract.

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling

C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Holy crap

https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

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Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

Human-level …honestly I'd feel too old to do it exactly this way with a significant load. So, slightly superhuman

C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Holy crap

https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

another new bar for coolest humanoid videos. we hit them every other day it seems

Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling

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C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Sometimes I wonder is it the skill issue to use human data for doing worse than this.

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kache@yacineMTB

@ChongZzZhang lol love this

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Alexis Gallagher@alexisgallagher

@ChongZzZhang Robo bro really needs to learn how to squat for the first lift

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Harrison Kinsley@Sentdex

@chris_j_paxton ya the banana grab is cool but mad respect to that gantry operator!

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Alfred Cueva@alfie14x

@ChongZzZhang @ZeYanjie That’s hard for a human already 😳

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Jed Hoo@jedhoo

@ChongZzZhang damn thats not what I was expecting

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Lorenz S.@cogentia

@ChongZzZhang The box weights 1kg

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Nima Zeighami@NimaZeighami

@ChongZzZhang That’s SO FREAKING COOL

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Justin Chen@ch3njus

@ChongZzZhang that's really impressive

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Gate-85-Evan-返利频道@pooh311602vlgv

@teortaxesTex 这岁数确实不敢瞎折腾了佩服佩服

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Super Invest@globalvilllage

@ChongZzZhang 这难度不一般

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OSARO@OsaroAI

@ChongZzZhang

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りえ@ri9rieyocb

@teortaxesTex 这真的有点超人技能了

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AUTONOMOUS - July 16th@autonomousevent

@ChongZzZhang That is some impressive movement.

Could it get back down, though?

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OKX丨45返丨方晴：小信箱 🔥@Hikarusinzen

@teortaxesTex 这哥们儿说得太实在了

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kvick@kvickart

@chris_j_paxton this is exciting

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wvladimir2@wvladimir2

@ChongZzZhang Please lift with your legs, not with your back, take care of your lower back.

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling

C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Holy crap

https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

4h13.7K10115

Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex

Human-level …honestly I'd feel too old to do it exactly this way with a significant load. So, slightly superhuman

C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang

Holy crap

https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/

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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

another new bar for coolest humanoid videos. we hit them every other day it seems

Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton

Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling

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