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The Sentient Code: AI and Robotics

The Sentient Code: AI and Robotics

BeyondMimic: When a Robot Stops Copying and Starts Composing Motion

The Sentient Code: AI and Robotics · Sep 28, 2026 · 21:00

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A humanoid trained on a single afternoon of human motion now sprints, spin-kicks, and cartwheels—then stitches those skills into tasks it never practiced.

Berkeley and Stanford’s BeyondMimic, out this week in Science Robotics, turns imitation into a composable motor prior. We unpack the two-stage AI, the hardware transfer, and why agility that you can steer is a different kind of robot.

This episode includes AI-generated content.

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