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C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang
Holy crap
https://atarilab.github.io/motiondisco.io/
3:04 AM · Jun 5, 2026 · 93.7K Views
Atari Lab demonstrates advanced humanoid robot locomotion and multi-step planning under its MotionDisco project
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.
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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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Many users called the humanoid robot's agile desk-climbing demo to grab a banana impressive and exciting, while a few dismissed it as fake because an operator was visibly cranking controls.
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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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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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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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C. Zhang@ChongZzZhang
Sometimes I wonder is it the skill issue to use human data for doing worse than this.
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Ilyass Taouil@itaouil95
@autonomousevent @ChongZzZhang It can.
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kache@yacineMTB
@ChongZzZhang lol love this
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lil’km@_lilkm_
@chris_j_paxton @NepYope @victoroldensand go grab a banana, hahaha
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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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Revant Mahajan@MahajanRevant
@ChongZzZhang @LouisLeLay4 That’s so impressive! I would sure love to see the type of failures 🤔
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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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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
@chris_j_paxton Clever laddie.
Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxton
Reach the banana hanging from the ceiling
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Ilyass Taouil@itaouil95
@Sentdex @chris_j_paxton Gantry operator here.
Fun fact: I was initially turning in the wrong direction in the video (hence the frantic tightening at the end), but the RL policy proved so robust that I wasn’t needed much.
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Lucky@Stillvious
@ChongZzZhang Build a tree fort ✋🏻👍🏻
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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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𝙼𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚎𝚕 (𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚢) 𝙰𝚛𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚘𝚕🗽🇺🇸@Miki53688453
@chris_j_paxton What a joke! You can literally see the engineer operating the robot with the crank!
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kvick@kvickart
@chris_j_paxton this is exciting
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Lucky@Stillvious
@chris_j_paxton Build a treehouse. ✋🏻
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